Nina Rocheva
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Women's cross-country skiing | ||
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Olympic Games | ||
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1980 Lake Placid | 4 × 5 km relay |
World Championships | ||
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1974 Falun | 4 × 5 km relay |
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1978 Lahti | 4 × 5 km relay |
Nina Petrovna Rocheva (Russian: Нина Петровна Рочева, née Selyunina; 13 October 1948 – 8 January 2022) was a Soviet cross-country skier who competed from 1978 to 1980. She won a silver medal in the 4 × 5 km relay at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
Rocheva also earned two medals in the 4 × 5 km relay at the world ski championships: gold (under her maiden name Selyunina at the 1974 Championships in Falun, Sweden, and bronze at the 1978 World Championships in Lahti, Finland.
She was married to the Soviet Olympic champion in cross-country skiing Vasily (Pavlovich) Rochev, she is the mother of Vasily (Vasilyevich) Rochev, also Olympic medalist in that discipline. She died on 8 January 2022, at the age of 73.[1]
Cross-country skiing results[]
Olympic Games[]
- 1 medal – (1 silver)
Year | Age | 5 km | 10 km | 4 × 5 km relay |
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1980 | 31 | 15 | — | 2nd |
World Championships[]
- 2 medals – (1 gold, 1 bronze)
Year | Age | 5 km | 10 km | 20 km | 4 × 5 km relay |
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1974 | 25 | — | — | N/A | 1st |
1978 | 29 | — | 8 | — | 3rd |
References[]
- ^ Nina Rocheva at Olympedia
External links[]
- Database Olympic Profile
- World Championship results (in German)
Categories:
- 1948 births
- 2022 deaths
- Soviet female cross-country skiers
- Cross-country skiers at the 1976 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics
- Olympic cross-country skiers of the Soviet Union
- Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
- Universiade medalists in cross-country skiing
- Universiade silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Competitors at the 1972 Winter Universiade
- Soviet Winter Olympic medalist stubs
- Russian cross-country skiing biography stubs