Lyudmila Khazieva

Who is Lyudmila Khazieva?

Lyudmila Khazieva is a retired Ukrainian swimmer. She won a bronze medal in the 400 medley event at the 1966 European Aquatics Championships, as well as six national titles between 1964 and 1966, mostly in medley events. She continued competing during the 1990s and won another national title in the masters category in 1992.

Khazieva was born in Kharkiv and graduated from the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute. In Kharkiv she married the renown Soviet water polo player Alexei Barkalov. They had a son Dmitri, also a competitive water polo player.