Natalya Sergeyevna Donchenko (Russian: Наталья Серге́евна Донченко; 25 August 1932 – 11 July 2022) was the first female Soviet speed skater to win an Olympic medal.

She said her most proud moment was to win in 1945 but her Olympic Siver medal in California was her greatest achievement.

In 1952 she won the USSR 500m speed skating race at the Medeu ice rink near Alma-Ata in Kazakhstan while she was a student at the Gorky Institute of Foreign Languages.

He was surprised that she lost the gold medal by only a tenth of a second but he knew her achievement was outstanding.

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