Early career Agletdinova was born in
Kurgan-Tyube in the
Tajik SSR of the Soviet Union. then was selected for the
1982 European Athletics Championships as a result, where she reached the semi-finals. Agletdinova dipped under four minutes for the 1500 m in
Birmingham in 1983, setting a new best of 3:59.31 minutes. Still, her time that year ranked her as the world's second fastest 1500 m athlete for the season behind Decker. She remained among the world's best in the 1984, but the
Olympic boycott meant she only competed at the
Friendship Games, where she was the 1500 m silver medallist behind fellow Soviet
Nadezhda Ralldugina.
European and national titles She reached the top of the national scene in 1985 by winning a middle-distance double at the
Soviet Athletics Championships. A more tactical race came at the
1985 IAAF World Cup towards the end of the season and she was beaten into second place by East Germany's
Hildegard Körner. Agletdinova (setting a time of 3:59.84 minutes) was runner-up over 1500 m to
Tatyana Samolenko at the Soviet Championships in 1986, and the pair repeated that placing at the
Goodwill Games in
Moscow, leaving Agletdinova as silver medallist. Both were the favoured athletes for that distance at the
1986 European Athletics Championships held the following month and Agletdinova turned the positions around. With a final lap of 59 seconds, she took the European title with a time of 4:01.19 minutes ahead of her compatriot as well as
Doina Melinte (800 m champion and fastest that year). After this she took a break from athletics and after marrying she had a daughter around 1988. After the
dissolution of the Soviet Union, she began competing for Belarus internationally. She ran in both the 1500 m and 3000 m in her country's first appearance at the
1993 World Championships in Athletics, but the 33-year-old did not progress beyond the heats. For her achievements, she was honoured as Master of Sport of the Republic of Belarus by presidential decree. Following her retirement from athletics she worked in Minsk for the marketing department of
Delo magazine. On 25 June 1999, she died after a traffic accident near
Žlobin in Belarus at the age of 39. After her death a
track and field meeting in
Minsk was created in her honour: the Ravilya Agletdinova Memorial. Her daughter
Maryna Arzamasava competed in the meeting and won the
600 metres race. Arzamasava later won the 800 m European title, following in her mother's footsteps. ==Personal bests==