Inna Yevseyeva

Inna Yevseyeva
Personal information
Born14 August 1964 (1964-08-14) (age 59)
Medal record
Women's Athletics
Representing  Soviet Union
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1991 Sheffield 800 metres
Representing  CIS
European Indoor Championships
Silver medal – second place 1992 Genoa 800 metres

Inna Yevseyeva (Russian: Инна Евсеева; born 14 August 1964) is a retired middle-distance athlete who specialised in the 800 metres. She was born in Zhytomyr, Ukrainian SSR and represented the Soviet Union in the 1980s and the early 1990s, and then Ukraine. A two-time Olympian, Yevseyeva finished sixth in the 1988 Olympic 800 m final in Seoul and fourth in the 1992 Olympic 800 m final in Barcelona. She set her personal best in the women's 800 metres with 1:56.0 on 4 July 1988 at a meet in Kharkov, which made her the fastest 800m woman in the world for 1988.

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