1. Olympic athletes which
were born in Moscow.
Проект Прохоровой

2. Yelena Vladimirovna
Petushkova (born in
Moscow 17 November 1940
- died there 9 January 2007)
was a Russian and former
Soviet equestrian who won
three medals, of which one
gold and two silver in
dressage during the
Summer Olympics.

3. Petushkova became a member of the USSR
National Team in 1964 and competed for it until
1987. In the 1968 Summer Olympics she won her
first silver medal, finishing in second place in the
team dressage event alongside Ivan Kalita and
Ivan Kizimov. Four years later, in the 1972
Summer Olympics she and her team mates who
were again Kalita and Kizimov improved their
performance and won the gold medal. In the
individual competition she won her third
Olympic medal, finishing second behind Liselott
Linsenhoff. In between she became World
Champion in Aachen 1970 riding her horse
Pepel. She became national champion of the
Soviet Union a total of thirteen times.

4. After her career she became vice president of the
Soviet Union Olympic Committee between 1983
and 1991, while she was president of the Russian
Equestrian Federation from 1996 to 1999 and was
the head coach of the Russian National Dressage
Team since 1997.

5. She graduated from there with honors in 1963 and after
studying in the aspirantura of the Scientific Research
Institute of Pharmacology and Medicine by the USSR
Academy of Medical Sciences for two years, received
Candidate of Biology Sciences scientific degree. Between
1966 and 1976 she was a junior research worker and
between 1976 and 1991 - a senior research worker at the
chair of biochemistry of the Department of Biology of
Moscow State University.

6. In 1991 Petushkova became a
senior research worker at
the Institute of
Biochemistry of the Russian
Academy of
Science, working there until
1997. She authored more
than 60 publications in
Soviet and international
journals of biochemistry
and wrote a monograph
"An Introduction to the
Kinetics of Enzymic
Reactions" in 1982.
Petushkova was awarded
the Order of the Red
Banner of Labour in
1970, the Order of the
Badge of Honor in 1972
and the Order of
Friendship of Peoples in
1980.