Birth Place: | Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Height: | 158 cm |
Weight: | 58 kg |
Sport: | Speed skating |
Pb: | 500 m – 40.96 (1976) 1000 m – 1:24.0 (1977) 1500 m – 2:19.48 (1977) 3000 m – 5:13.1 (1970) |
Club: | Spartak Omsk Spartak Moscow |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Vera Ivanovna Krasnova (ru|Вера Ивановна Краснова, born 3 April 1950) is a retired Russian speed skater who specialized in the 500 m distance. She competed at the 1972 and 1976 Winter Olympics and won a silver medal in 1972, placing fifth in 1976.
Krasnova won a silver medal in the 500 m at the 1972 European All-around Championships. She took part in five World Sprint Speed Skating Championships, with the best result of fourth place in 1975. Domestically she won the 500 m Soviet title in 1969, 1972 and 1976. Krasnova was born in Omsk, but later moved to Moscow and worked there as a school teacher.