The only Olympic champion from the Novgorodskay region.

Biography In 1976 Nina Trofimova became the

champion in rowing on a kayak at the XXI summer Olympic Games in Montreal , and it is her highest sporting achievement. Also Nina Trofimova is the silver prize-winner of the XXII summer Olympic Games of 1980 in Moscow, the participant of the XX summer Olympic Games of 1972 in Munich and the deserved master of sports of the USSR.

Childhood Nina Trofimova

was born on May 4, 1953 in Novgorod. She studied at the oldest Novgorod school No. 2.She was fond of rowing at the age of 12 and entered the rowing school "Spartak".

Achievements The Olympic champion in 1976, The Silver prize-winner of Olympic Games in

1980, The 12-fold champion of the USSR, The 2-fold world champion, The 3-fold silver prize-winner of the World Cup In 1968 she became the champion of the USSR

among girls when she was only 15, and thas success she repeated twice.

The way to the international recognition was laid in 1969 when she won the junior European championship.

The XXI summer Olympic Games in Montreal

In a kayak there were two girls: Nina Gopova and Galina Kreft from Leningrad. They won final arrival with result 1 minute and 51,15 seconds. The hour of sport triumph for Novgorod came!

However dispute for "gold" for girlfriends from two neighboring cities was given the hard: he advantage over closest pursuers from Hungary was 0.54 seconds or half a length boats.In total for the championship title in Montreal then fought 14 crews.

In honor of a remarkable victory after arrival from Canada in the territory of native rowing school the first Novgorod Olympic champion put the Canadian maple.

Awards— an award "Honour Sign";

—a medal "For Labour Difference";

—a medal "For Merits in Development of the Olympic Movement in Russia";

—a rank "The honourable citizen of Novgorod";

— an anniversary medal "In Memory of the 1150 Anniversary of Veliky Novgorod";

—a title "1150 anniversary of origin of the Russian statehood";

Musayelyan Christina, St. Petersburg, Lyceum No. 126, 10 “B“.