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Nunu Abashydze

Nunu Dzhansuhivna Abashydze Mislayeva (; born 27 March 1955 in Novovolynsk) is a retired track and field shot putter from Ukraine, best known for winning the bronze medal for the Soviet Union in the women's shot put event at the 1982 European Championships. She set her personal best (21.53 m) on 20 June 1984 at a meet in Kiev. In 1979 she was granted the title of Master of Sport of the USSR, International Class.

Biography

Abashydze was born on 27 March 1955 in the city of Novovolynsk, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. She started competing in athletics in 1967 under coach V. Grin, and in 1973 she began to compete for the club Dynamo under coach Y. Domovsky in Odesa. In 1978, she joined the national team of the USSR in shotput.

In 1981, she was briefly suspended after failing a doping test by World Athletics. A year later while suspended she graduated from the Odesa National Medical University. In 1986, she moved to Canada, and later became a Canadian citizen.

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