Natalya Lisovskaya

Natalya Lisovskaya holds a record that genuinely stops me in my tracks: her shot put world mark from 1987 still stands decades later, which says everything about how dominant she was for the Soviet Union. At 186 cm and trained at Spartak in Moscow, she was a force, and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour underlines the era's recognition of her. What fascinates me is the longevity of that record in a sport where standards usually fall. Records that survive that long become history themselves, and Lisovskaya's name is permanently fixed at the top of an event she defined.

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Name (English)

Natalya Lisovskaya

Name (Japanese)

ナタリア・リソフスカヤ

Reading

なたりあ・りそふすかや

Born

July 16, 1962 (age 64)

Origin

Alegazovo, Russia

Height

186 cm

Occupation

athletics competitor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Tiger

University

Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism

Awards & achievements

• Order of the Red Banner of Labour
• Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalya%20Lisovskaya
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BD%E3%83%95%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235227

Tags

• athletics competitor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.