Career
Irina Press won two Olympic gold medals for the USSR team, in 80 m hurdles (1960) and pentathlon (1964). She trained at VSS Trud and later at Dynamo.
Together with her older sister Tamara Press, who was also a track athlete, Irina was half of the "Press Sisters", a duo who won almost everything that there was to win in track and field, except for distance running. The two sisters won five track and field Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union, and set 26 world records in the 1960s.
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