Yekaterina Smirnova

For Kazakhstani canoeists, see Yekaterina Smirnova (canoeist).

Yekaterina Smirnova (born October 22, 1956) is a retired heptathlete who competed for the Soviet Union during her career. She twice won the gold medal at the Summer Universiade. Smirnova set her personal best (6493 points) in the heptathlon on 19 June 1983 at a meet in Moscow.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
1978	European Championships	Prague, Czechoslovakia	7th	Pentathlon
1979	World Student Games	Mexico City, Mexico	1st	Pentathlon
1979	Spartakiad	Moscow, Soviet Union	1st	Pentathlon
1983	World Student Games	Edmonton, Canada	1st	Heptathlon
1983	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	6th	Heptathlon

References

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Summer Universiade champions in women's pentathlon and heptathlon

1965-1979 Pentathlon	1965: Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS) 1967: Liese Prokop (AUT) 1970: Tatyana Kondrashova (URS) 1973: Nadezhda Tkachenko (URS) 1975: Jane Frederick (USA) 1977: Valentina Dimitrova (BUL) 1979: Yekaterina Smirnova (URS)

1981-present Heptathlon	1981: Małgorzata Guzowska (POL) 1983: Yekaterina Smirnova (URS) 1985: Małgorzata Guzowska (POL) 1987: Liliana Năstase (ROM) 1989: Larisa Nikitina (URS) 1991: Birgit Clarius (GER) 1993: Urszula Włodarczyk (POL) 1995: Jane Jamieson (AUS) 1997: Mona Steigauf (GER) 1999: Tiffany Lott (USA) 2001: Jane Jamieson (AUS) 2003: Kylie Wheeler (AUS) 2005: Lyudmyla Blonska (UKR) 2007: Viktorija Žemaitytė (LTU) 2009: Jessica Samuelsson (SWE) 2011: Olga Kurban (RUS) 2013: Tatyana Chernova (RUS) 2015: Anna Maiwald (GER)

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