Born in the Russian SFSR, Klara Guseva competed for the Soviet Union.

[1] She won a silver medal at the Soviet Allround Championships in 1960 and participated one month later in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley.

These were the first Winter Olympics where speed skating for women was on the programme.

Nobody was able to beat that time and Guseva was Olympic Champion on the 1,000 m, ahead of silver medallist Helga Haase, who had become the first female Olympic Champion in speed skating when she won the 500 m two days earlier.

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