Klavdiya Boyarskikh

Klavdiya Sergeyevna Boyarskikh, born on 11 November 1939 and died on 12 December 2009, was a Russian cross-country skier who competed in the 1960s. In 1964 she won her first Soviet titles, in the 5 km and the relay, and she was selected for the Olympic Games, where she ran the fastest leg of the 3 x 5 km relay and became the first female cross-country skier to win all of the Olympic events, three golds in total. In 1966 she won two more national titles, in the 5 and 10 km, as well as two world titles, and she also won three times at the Holmenkollen ski festival, in the 10 km in 1965 and 1966 and in the 5 km in 1967. She retired in 1968 and worked as a skiing coach with Lokomotiv Sverdlovsk until her death, and since 1970 the annual Klavdiya Boyarskikh Cup has been held in Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg.