Natalia Lavrova

Natalia Aleksandrovna Lavrova (Russian: Наталья Александровна Лаврова, 4 August 1984 – 23 April 2010) was a dual Olympic gold medalist.

Her first coach was Olga Stebeneva at the Dinamo club in Penza.

Lavrova died in a car accident in Penza Oblast in 2010.

She was a passenger in a car driven by her pregnant sister Olga Popova (Ольга Попова) who also died in the collision with another vehicle near Penza, some 600 kilometers south-east of Moscow.

[1] The car (VAZ 2114) was completely destroyed by fire after the accident.