Galina Savinkova (Russian: Галина Савинкова; born 15 July 1953) is a retired female track and field athlete from the Soviet Union, who set the world record in the women's discus throw on 23 May 1983 with a distance of 73.26 metres.
A year later, on 8 September 1984 in Donetsk, she reached 73.28 metres.
That mark still is the Russian national record.
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