Lyudmila Veselkova, née Lyudmila Semeniuta, is a retired female middle-distance runner, who represented the USSR in the 1970s and the early 1980s. She set her personal best in the women's 800 metres (1:55.96) on 8 September 1982 at the European Championships in Athens, Greece. Lyudmila Veselkova (Soviet Union) set the women's mile world record of 4:20.89 in Bologna on September 12, 1981. It stood 10 months, until Mary Decker-Tabb's 4:18.08 on July 9, 1982. Wiki link