{ "id": "epv0n0bs6j", "slug": "tatyana-storozheva", "title": "Tatyana Storozheva", "updated": "2026-10-25", "topic_path": [ { "id": "play", "label": "Sports, games, and recreation", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play" }, { "id": "play.individual", "label": "Individual sports and outdoor recreation", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.individual" }, { "id": "play.individual.athletics", "label": "Athletics, gymnastics, and strength sports", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.individual.athletics" }, { "id": "play.individual.athletics.athletics_people", "label": "Athletes of track and field and road running", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.individual.athletics.athletics_people" }, { "id": "play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers", "label": "Sprinters and hurdlers", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers" }, { "id": "play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers.hurdlers", "label": "Hurdlers", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers.hurdlers" }, { "id": "play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers.hurdlers.world-record-setting-hurdlers", "label": "World record-setting hurdlers", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers.hurdlers.world-record-setting-hurdlers" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.eeu.t1946.play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers", "label": "Eastern Europe · 1946 to 2000: Sprinters and hurdlers", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t1946.play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers", "path": [ { "id": "geo.eeu", "label": "Eastern Europe", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t1946", "label": "Eastern Europe · 1946 to 2000", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t1946" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t1946.play", "label": "Sports, games, and recreation", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t1946.play" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t1946.play.individual", "label": "Individual sports and outdoor recreation", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t1946.play.individual" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t1946.play.individual.athletics", "label": "Athletics, gymnastics, and strength sports", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t1946.play.individual.athletics" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t1946.play.individual.athletics.athletics_people", "label": "Athletes of track and field and road running", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t1946.play.individual.athletics.athletics_people" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t1946.play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers", "label": "Sprinters and hurdlers", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t1946.play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Tatyana Storozheva (Татьяна Андреевна Сторожева), born 1954, is a Soviet 400m hurdler who set the ratified world record of 55.74 at Karl-Marx-Stadt on 26 June 1977 and a personal best of 54.80 in 1980.", "snippet": "Tatyana Storozheva (Татьяна Андреевна Сторожева), born 1954, is a Soviet 400m hurdler who set the ratified world record of 55.74 at Karl-Marx-Stadt on 26 June 1977 and a personal best of 54.80 in 1980.", "node": "play.individual.athletics.athletics_people.sprinters-and-hurdlers.hurdlers.world-record-setting-hurdlers", "markdown": "# Tatyana Storozheva\n\n**Tatyana Storozheva** (Татьяна Андреевна Сторожева; born 1954) is a Soviet former hurdler who held the ratified world record in the women's 400 meters hurdles with 55.74 seconds, set on 26 June 1977 at Karl-Marx-Stadt in East Germany[1](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/ussr/tatyana-storozheva-14343398) • [2](https://www.sport-record.de/leichtathletik/athletics-wr.pdf). She competed for the Soviet Union in the second half of the 1970s, ranked first in the world in 1976, and later worked as an athletics coach in [Krasnodar](https://www.edgepedia.org/krasnodar)[3](https://athleticsweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2025/06/June-6-1981-Vol-35-No-23.pdf).\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Born | 1954[1](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/ussr/tatyana-storozheva-14343398) |\n| Event | 400 meters hurdles[1](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/ussr/tatyana-storozheva-14343398) |\n| World record | 55.74, Karl-Marx-Stadt, 26 June 1977; one of 16 ratified women's 400m hurdles world records[2](https://www.sport-record.de/leichtathletik/athletics-wr.pdf) |\n| Personal best | 54.80, Moskva, 12 June 1980[1](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/ussr/tatyana-storozheva-14343398) |\n| World ranking | First in the world in 1976 with 56.8[3](https://athleticsweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2025/06/June-6-1981-Vol-35-No-23.pdf) |\n\n## Early life and training\n\nShe took up sport at her local secondary school under the physical education teacher Vyacheslav Zosim, then trained at the youth sports school in Slavyansk-na-Kubani under coach Nikolai Gogolev.\n\n## The 1977 world record\n\nThe women's 400 meters hurdles was a young event in the mid-1970s. The IAAF officially recognized it in 1974, and the first official world record of 56.51 was set by Poland's Krystyna Kacperczyk on 13 July 1974 in Augsburg[4](https://worldathletics.org/download/downloadnsa?filename=56881597-0299-4468-8b52-afa3636eea9b.pdf&urlslug=the-400m-hurdles). In 1976 Storozheva ranked first in the world with 56.8, in a year when the event otherwise stagnated; the American Debbie Esser had led the world with 57.3 in 1975[3](https://athleticsweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2025/06/June-6-1981-Vol-35-No-23.pdf).\n\n**Karl-Marx-Stadt, June 1977.** In June 1977 Storozheva produced the run that made her record: at a match meeting in Karl-Marx-Stadt she faced the world record holder Kacperczyk and beat both the Pole and her record with 55.74[3](https://athleticsweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2025/06/June-6-1981-Vol-35-No-23.pdf). The mark was ratified by the IAAF and stands in the official progression as the second of the event's 16 ratified world records[2](https://www.sport-record.de/leichtathletik/athletics-wr.pdf). The record lasted 48 days: on 13 August 1977, at the European Cup final in Helsinki, the 20-year-old East German Karin Rossley, competing in only her third race at the distance, beat Storozheva and Kacperczyk and lowered the record to 55.63[3](https://athleticsweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2025/06/June-6-1981-Vol-35-No-23.pdf).\n\nThe rest of her 1977 season was strong.\n\n## Later career\n\nStorozheva remained among the world's best through 1979 and 1980. In the year's headline race she ran 55.08, leaving [Tatyana Zelentsova](https://www.edgepedia.org/tatyana-zelentsova) well behind, but finished third behind Makeyeva, whose winning 54.78 was a new world record[3](https://athleticsweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2025/06/June-6-1981-Vol-35-No-23.pdf).\n\nIn 1980, after Karin Rossley regained the world record at 54.28 in May, Storozheva was the first to break 55 seconds, running 54.80. [World Athletics](https://www.edgepedia.org/world-athletics) dates this personal best to 12 June 1980 in Moscow, while Athletics Weekly's 1981 retrospective places it in July[1](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/ussr/tatyana-storozheva-14343398) • [3](https://athleticsweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2025/06/June-6-1981-Vol-35-No-23.pdf). The 54.80 made her the fifth-fastest woman in history at that point, behind Rossley, Bärbel Broschat, Ellen Neumann, and Makeyeva[3](https://athleticsweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2025/06/June-6-1981-Vol-35-No-23.pdf). The event was not on the program at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, so no Olympic appearance followed[3](https://athleticsweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2025/06/June-6-1981-Vol-35-No-23.pdf).\n\n## Place in the record progression\n\nStorozheva's 55.74 sits at the start of the event's formative record years, in which the record changed hands repeatedly among Soviet, East German, and Polish hurdlers: Kacperczyk, Storozheva, Rossley, Kacperczyk again, Tatyana Zelentsova twice, and Makeyeva all held it between 1974 and 1979[2](https://www.sport-record.de/leichtathletik/athletics-wr.pdf). Her 55.74 still appears on the World Athletics all-time European list for the event, and her personal best of 54.80 remains her listed best performance[1](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/ussr/tatyana-storozheva-14343398) • [5](https://worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/hurdles/400-metres-hurdles/all/women/senior?ageCategory=senior&bestResultsOnly=false&eventId=10229523&firstDay=1900-01-01&lastDay=2019-09-30&maxResultsByCountry=all&page=22®ion=europe®ionType=area&timing=electronic).\n\n## References\n\n1. [Tatyana STOROZHEVA, athlete profile, World Athletics](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/ussr/tatyana-storozheva-14343398)\n2. [Athletics – Progression of world records, sport-record.de](https://www.sport-record.de/leichtathletik/athletics-wr.pdf)\n3. [Athletics Weekly, Vol. 35 No. 23, 6 June 1981](https://athleticsweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2025/06/June-6-1981-Vol-35-No-23.pdf)\n4. [The 400m Hurdles, World Athletics](https://worldathletics.org/download/downloadnsa?filename=56881597-0299-4468-8b52-afa3636eea9b.pdf&urlslug=the-400m-hurdles)\n5. 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