Tatyana Sevryukova

Tatyana Nikitichna Sevryukova (Russian: Татья́на Ники́тична Севрюко́ва; 30 June 1917 – 1981) was a Soviet track and field athlete who competed mainly in the shot put.

She was the gold medallist at the 1946 European Athletics Championships and broke the world record for the event in 1948.

The rise of two further throwers in 1952, Galina Zybina and Tamara Tyshkevich, saw Soviets occupy the top five spots and Sevryukova pushed down to fourth (her lowest placing since 1935).

[2] Sevryukova's career set the stage for future Soviet dominance of the women's shot put.

After her world record in 1948, the mark remained exclusively in Soviet hands until 1968: Tochonova, Andreyeva, Zybina, Tamara Press and Nadezhda Chizhova were the successive holders.

[7] The Soviet Union was similarly dominant at major international competitions: after Sevryukova's European gold in 1946, only two athletes from outside the Soviet Union (Marianne Werner and Margitta Gummel) managed to win an Olympic or European gold medal in the thirty years after that.