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Chudina then changed to athletics, and had a first international success in 1946, when she finished second in the high jump at the European championships.
Chudina then changed to athletics, and had a first international success in 1946, when she finished second in the high jump at the European championships.
Chudina took a wide range of sports and excelled first in field hockey, where she started playing as a defender in 1937 and later changed to a forward. On 22 May 1954, she set a new world record in the high jump at 1.73 meters. Between 1947 and 1963 Chudina was also a member, and often the captain, of the Dynamo and national volleyball teams.
Chudina was one of the most popular Soviet sportspersons of the 1950s, and was then used by the Soviet media as an example of superiority of the national sport programs.
She was a colorful person who had a coarse low voice, enjoyed alcohol drinking and playing cards in a company, and was a careless car driver. After retiring from competitions she worked as a sports administrator and was soon forgotten.
She had developed tuberculosis and lost one leg due to gangrene. A chain smoker through much of her life, she died of a stomach cancer, aged 66.