Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko ana angitu tuatahi i raro i tona ingoa kotiro, Yelena Chernysheva (kua whakamaoritia ano ko Elena Chernyshova), a ko ia te toa parahi takitahi me te toa koura a te roopu i te 1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. I whakahoutia e ia taua mahi i te huihuinga o te tau 1981 ka riro i a ia te taitara tuatoru me te whakamutunga o te roopu i te
1982 putanga (e ārahi ana i nga wahine Soviet i te tuawhitu).