Raisa Smetanina

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Medal record
Women's cross country skiing
Olympic Games
Gold	1976 Innsbruck	10 km
Gold	1976 Innsbruck	4 x 5 km
Gold	1980 Lake Placid	5 km
Gold	1992 Albertville	4 x 5 km
Silver	1976 Innsbruck	5 km
Silver	1980 Lake Placid	4 x 5 km
Silver	1984 Sarajevo	10 km
Silver	1984 Sarajevo	20 km
Silver	1988 Calgary	10 km
Bronze	1988 Calgary	20 km
World Championships
Gold	1974 Falun	4 x 5 km
Gold	1982 Oslo	20 km
Gold	1985 Seefeld	4 x 5 km
Gold	1991 Val di Fiemme	4 x 5 km
Silver	1978 Lahti	10 km
Silver	1978 Lahti	20 km
Silver	1982 Lahti	4 x 5 km
Silver	1989 Lahti	4 x 5 km
Bronze	1974 Falun	5 km
Bronze	1978 Lahti	5 km
Bronze	1978 Lahti	4 x 5 km
Bronze	1980 Falun	20 km

Raisa Petrovna Smetanina (Russian: Раи́са Петро́вна Смета́нина; born February 29, 1952 in the village of Mokhcha, Komi ASSR) is a former Soviet/Russian Nordic skiing champion. She is the first woman in history to win ten Winter Olympic medals (Stefania Belmondo being the second). Smetanina took part in five Olympics, representing the USSR team four times and the Unified Team once. She trained at VSS Urozhay in Syktyvkar.

In the 1992 Winter Olympics, at the age of forty, Smetanina won a further gold medal competing for the Commonwealth of Independent States in the 4x5 km, becoming the first woman to win ten Winter Olympic medals and at that time the oldest woman to win a Winter Olympic gold.

Smetanina also had successes at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, winning four golds (20 km (1982), and 4x5 km (1974, 1985, and 1991), four silvers (10 km (1978), 20 km (1978), and 4x5 km (1982, 1989)), and four bronzes (4x5 km (1978), 5 km (1974, 1978), and 20 km (1980)). She also won three times at the Holmenkollen ski festival, once in the 10 km (1975) and twice in the 5 km (1975 and 1979).

In 1979, Smetanina received the Holmenkollen medal (shared with Erik Håker and Ingemar Stenmark). She was also awarded Order of Friendship of Peoples (1984). ^[1]

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• FIS Profile (As Raissa Smetanina)
• Holmenkollen medalists - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)
• Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)

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Olympic champions in women's cross country skiing 4 x 5 km relay

(As 3 x 5 km) 1956 Finland Sirkka Polkunen, Mirja Hietamies, & Siiri Rantanen
1960 Sweden Irma Johansson, Britt Strandberg, & Sonja Ruthström-Edström
1964 Soviet Union Alevtina Kolchina, Yevdokiya Mekshilo, & Klavdiya Boyarskikh
1968 Norway Inger Aufles, Babben Enger-Damon, & Berit Mørdre Lammedal
1972 Soviet Union Lyubov Mukhachyova, Alevtina Olyunina, & Galina Kulakova
(As 4 x 5 km) 1976 Soviet Union Nina Baldycheva, Zinaida Amosova, Raisa Smetanina, & Galina Kulakova
1980 East Germany Marlies Rostock, Carola Anding, Veronika Hesse, & Barbara Petzold
1984 Norway Inger Helene Nybråten, Anne Jahren, Britt Pettersen, & Berit Aunli
1988 Soviet Union Svetlana Nageykina, Nina Gavrilyuk, Tamara Tikhonova, & Anfisa Reztsova
1992 Unified Team Yelena Välbe, Raisa Smetanina, Larisa Lazutina, & Lyubov Yegorova
1994 Russia Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk, & Lyubov Yegorova
1998 Russia Nina Gavrilyuk, Olga Danilova, Yelena Välbe, & Larisa Lazutina
2002 Germany Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer, Claudia Künzel, & Evi Sachenbacher
2006 Russia Natalia Baranova-Masolkina, Larisa Kurkina, Yuliya Chepalova, & Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova

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World champions in women's 30 km cross-country skiing

As 20 km - 1978: Zinaida Amosova * 1980: Veronika Hesse * 1982: Raisa Smetanina * 1985: Grete Ingeborg Nykkelmo * 1987: Marie-Helene Westin

As 30 km - 1989: Yelena Välbe * 1991: Lyubov Yegorova * 1993: Stefania Belmondo * 1995: Yelena Välbe * 1997: Yelena Välbe * 1999: Larisa Lazutina * 2003: Olga Zavyalova * 2005: Marit Bjørgen * 2007: Virpi Kuitunen

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World champions in women's cross country skiing 4 x 5 km relay

(As 3 x 5 km) 1954 Soviet Union Lyubov Kozyreva, Margarita Maslennikova & Valentina Tsaryova
1958 Soviet Union Radya Yeroshina, Alevtina Kolchina & Lyubov Kozyreva
1962 Soviet Union Lyubov Baranova, Maria Gusakova & Alevtina Kolchina
1966 Soviet Union Klavdiya Boyarskikh, Rita Achkina & Alevtina Kolchina
1970 Soviet Union Nina Baldycheva, Galina Kulakova & Alevtina Olyunina
(As 4 x 5 km) 1974 Soviet Union Nina Baldycheva, Nina Selyunina, Raisa Smetanina & Galina Kulakova
1978 Finland Taina Impiö, Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen, Hilkka Riihivuori & Helena Takalo
1982 Norway Anette Bøe, Inger Helene Nybråten, Berit Aunli & Britt Pettersen
1985 Soviet Union Tamara Tikhonova, Raisa Smetanina, Liliya Vasilchenko & Anfisa Romanova
1987 Soviet Union Antonina Ordina, Nina Gavrilyuk, Larisa Ptistyna, & Anfisa Reztsova
1989 Finland Pirkko Määttä, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Jaana Savolainen & Marjo Matikainen
1991 Soviet Union Lyubov Yegorova, Raisa Smetanina, Tamara Tikhonova & Yelena Välbe
1993 Russia Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk & Lyubov Yegorova
1995 Russia Olga Danilova, Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina & Nina Gavrilyuk
1997 Russia Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk & Yelena Välbe
1999 Russia Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Anfisa Reztsova & Nina Gavrilyuk
2001 Russia Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Yuliya Chepalova & Nina Gavrilyuk
2003 Germany Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer, Claudia Künzel & Evi Sachenbacher
2005 Norway Vibeke Skofterud, Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Kristin Størmer Steira & Marit Bjørgen
2007 Finland Virpi Kuitunen, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen, Riitta-Liisa Roponen & Pirjo Manninen

Preceded by Helena Takalo, Hilkka Riihivuori, & Walter Steiner

Holmenkollen medal with Ingemar Stenmark & Erik Håker 1979

Succeeded by Thomas Wassberg