Valentina Yegorova

Valentina Mikhailovna Yegorova (Russian: Валентина Михайловна Егорова, born 16 February 1964) is a long-distance runner from Russia.

Yegorova competed in the women's marathon for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain.

There she won the gold medal beating the Japanese athlete Yuko Arimori into second.

She won a second global title at the 1995 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.

She returned to compete for Russia in the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, where she won the silver medal in the women's marathon, again beating Yuko Arimori this time into third.