Galina Tsareva

Galina Tsareva

Personal information
Born	(1950-04-19) 19 April 1950 (age 74) Velikie Luki, Russia
Sport
Sport	Track cycling
Club	Lokomotiv
Medal record Representing  Soviet Union World Championships 1969 Antwerp Individual sprint 1970 Leicester Individual sprint 1971 Varese Individual sprint 1974 Montreal Individual sprint 1977 San Cristóbal Individual sprint 1978 Munich Individual sprint 1979 Amsterdam Individual sprint 1980 Besançon Individual sprint

Galina Georgievna Tsareva (Russian: Галина Георгиевна Царева; born 19 April 1950) is a retired Soviet sprint cyclist who dominated the UCI Track Cycling World Championships of 1969–1980, winning 6 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals. Between 1969 and 1987 she won at least 10 national titles. She had an unusually long cycling career and was a candidate for the 1988 Olympic team, when women's track cycling was first introduced to the Olympics.^[1][2]

She married cycling coach Aleksandr Kuznetsov, they have three children. Nikolai (b. 1973) is a Russian cyclist who won a silver medal at the 1996 Olympics; Aleksei is also a competitive cyclist, whereas Svetlana (b. 1985) is a prominent Russian tennis player.

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