Irina Podyalovskaya

Irina Podyalovskaya (9 October 1959 – 13 August 2024) was a middle-distance runner who represented the USSR in the 1970s and the early 1980s She set her personal best in the women's 800 metres (1:55.

69) on 22 June 1984 at a meet in Kiev Podyalovskaya holds the current world record in the rarely contested 4 × 800 metres relay (7:50.

17 minutes with Nadezhda Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina and Lyudmila Borisova) Podyalovskaya died on 13 August 2024, at the age of 64.