Faina Melnik, a famous discus thrower, a 1972 Summer Olympics champion, the 5th Olympic champion of Armenia, died in an accident in Moscow on Friday at the age of 71, Sport-Express, a Russian daily sports newspaper.
Melnik was born in Bakota, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine in 1945. She became interested in discus throwing at 25.she achieved success when she moved to Yerevan in 1969 and was admitted to the Institute of Physical Culture. At the 1972 Summer Olympics, she broke the Olympic record three times, and set a world record at 66.62 metres. In 1976 she had her best ever discus throw of …read more
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