For the Belarusian biathlete go to Natalya Sokolova (biathlete) For the Russian model go to Natalia Sokolova
Natalya Sokolova (Наталья Соколова) (born 6 October, 1949) is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.
Sokolova trained at Dynamo in Moscow. She competed for the USSR in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Inta Klimovica, Lyudmila Aksenova and Nadezhda Ilyina.
Natalya Sokolova (Наталья Соколова, born 23 October 1973, Chelyabinsk oblast, Russian SFSR) is a biathlete who has represented Belarus since the start of the 2004–05 season. With Russia, she has won a relay gold medal at the European Championships, and she has also won an individual European gold medal and finished on the podium in a World Cup race once, with a third place in a pursuit race in Pokljuka. She is ranked 18th in the Biathlon World Cup 2006–07 season, which is her first top-30 rank in the World Cup standings, and her best placing at the World Championships is 34th at the individual event in 2007.
