Career
She trained at Dynamo in Voroshilovgrad. Competing in the 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay, she was a particularly successful Olympian with three gold medals and one silver. At the 1988 Olympics the Soviet relay team set a new world record of 3:15.17 minutes which is still unbeaten (as of 2012).
Bryzhina successfully defeated Flo-Jo at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in the 4 × 400 m relay.
Both runners ran the final leg of the relay and took the baton at about the same time. Flo-Jo ran a well paced race chasing Bryzhina closely, and then Flo-Jo tried to challenge Bryzhina at the 300m point.
Bryzhina"s time of 47.7 seconds in the 1988 Olympic Relay is one of the fastest relay legs ever run by a Women in the history of track and field Bryzhina"s 400m personal best of 48.27 seconds is the Woman"s 4th best result of all time in a laned 400m race.
Together they have a daughter Yelizaveta Bryzhina who is also a successful track runner specialising in the 200m sprint event (Yelizaveta competes for Ukraine).
200 metres - 22.44 (1985)
400 metres - 48.27 (1985).