Nina Trofimova is the only Olympic champion from the Novgorod region. She won gold in kayaking at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and silver at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Trofimova took up rowing at age 12 and went on to become a 12-time USSR champion, 2-time world champion, and 3-time World Cup silver medalist. She was born in 1953 in Novgorod and brought pride to her hometown and region as the first Olympic champion from Novgorod.

1. The only Olympic champion from the Novgorodskay
region.

3. 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 prizewinner 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.

4. 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".

5. 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.


6. 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.

7. 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";

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

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