Nadezhda Pavlovna Khnykina (June 24, 1933 – 1994 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv5n2/JOHv5n2l.pdf) is a Soviet

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 athlete who competed mainly in the 200 metres and long jump.

Khnykina trained at Dynamo in Tbilisi

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. She competed for the USSR

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 in the 1952 Summer Olympics

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 held in Helsinki

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, Finland

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 in the 200 metres where she won the bronze medal. She repeated this achievement in the 4 years later in Melbourne

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 at the 1956 Summer Olympics

1956 Summer Olympics

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only this time it was in the long jump.