Olga Potachova
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Olga Dmitrievna Potachova (Russian: Ольга Дмитриевна Поташова; born 26 June 1976 in Potsdam, Germany) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the silver medal in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She is 2.04 metres (6 ft 8.5 in) tall, making her one of the tallest female athletes in the world. She had to retire in 2004 due to health problems.
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- Russian women's volleyball players
- Olympic volleyball players for Russia
- Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Russia
- Russian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Sportspeople from Potsdam
- German women's volleyball players
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Russian women
- 21st-century Russian women
- Russian Olympic medalist stubs
- Russian volleyball biography stubs