Tamara Garkushina

Tamara Garkushina

Tamara Garkushina in 1967
Personal information
Born	(1946-02-01) 1 February 1946 (age 78)[1] Lipetsk Oblast, Russia
Sport
Sport	Cycling
Club	Dynamo[1]
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union WorldChampionships 1967 Amsterdam Individual pursuit 1969 Brno Individual pursuit 1970 Leicester Individual pursuit 1971 Varese Individual pursuit 1972 Marseille Individual pursuit 1973 San Sebastian Individual pursuit 1974 Montreal Individual pursuit

Tamara Pavlovna Garkushina (Russian: Тамара Павловна Гаркушина; born 1 February 1946) is a retired Russian track cyclist who won six world titles in the 3 km individual pursuit, in 1967 and 1970–1974. She also won more than 30 national titles in the individual and team pursuit events in 1966–1976.^[1]

Garkushina was born in a working-class family in a small village in Lipetsk Oblast. After moving to Tula, she graduated with a degree of house painter and decorator and practiced this profession first in Tula (1963–1964) and then in Irkutsk (1964–1965); in parallel, she trained in cycling. After retiring from competition, she worked as a post office clerk (1980–1982) and then as a cycling coach (1982–1985). From 1985 till retirement in 1993 she worked at machinery plants in Tula. In 2010, she became an honorary citizen of the city.^[2]