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Irina Davydova
1988May, 27

Irina Davydova

Irina Davydova, Russian hurdler
Irina Andreyevna Davydova (Russian: Ирина Андреевна Давыдова; born 27 May 1988, Alexandrov) is a Russian athlete who competes in the 400 metres hurdles with a personal best time of 53.77 seconds.

Davydova won the gold medal at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki but was stripped of her medal in 2022 as well as all her results from 20 June 2012 to 30 June 2015.

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  • 29May

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  • 15Nov

    State of Palestine

    Israeli-Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
  • 16Nov

    Benazir Bhutto

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  • 19Nov

    Slobodan Milošević

    Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.