set a world record of 1.34.7. Awards Itkina was recognised as an Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR and an Honoured Trainer of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1957 she was appointed a member of the Order of the Badge of Honour and in 1960 was awarded the Medal "For Labour Valour". In 2000 she was awarded the IOC Prize for Contribution to the Olympic Movement and in 2006 became a third class member of the Russian Order "For Merit to the Fatherland". Personal life Itkina was Jewish. In 1991 she was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Itkina died in Belarus on 1 December 2020. See also List of select Jewish track and field athletes References 1932 births 2020 deaths Soviet female sprinters Soviet Jews Sportspeople from Smolensk Athletes from Minsk Russian female sprinters Belarusian female sprinters Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics Jewish female athletes (track and field) European Athletics Championships medalists Olympic female sprinters