Ksenija Balta

Ksenija Balta
Ksenija Balta at the 2010 World Indoor Championships
nation	Estonia
birthday	1st November 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	Minsk ,  Soviet Union
size	168 cm
Weight	53 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump , sprint , heptathlon
society	Kergejõustikuklubi TIP
Trainer	Andrei Nazarov
National squad	since 2005
status	active
Medal table
European Indoor Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
European Indoor Championships gold Turin 2009 6.87 m  Junior European Championships bronze Kaunas 2005 5747 points
last change: August 22, 2020

Ksenija Balta (born November 1, 1986 in Minsk , BSSR , USSR ) is an Estonian athlete .

Athletic career

Balta began her sporting career as a heptathlete. At the Junior European Championships in Kaunas in 2005 , she won the bronze medal with 5745 points. At her first major international event among seniors, the 2005 European Indoor Championships in Madrid , she was 14th in the pentathlon with 3711 points . On June 1, 2006 she achieved in the heptathlon in Arles with a time of 23.05 s over the 200 meters Estonian record. She finished the competition with a personal best of 6180 points. That year she won the Estonian heptathlon championship for the first time. At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 , she started over the 100 meters and long jump. In the 100-meter competition, she failed with a national record of 11.47 s in the first round. In the long jump qualification she was only able to make one safety jump after invalid attempts and was eliminated in qualification group A with a disappointing distance of 6.03 m. Four days later she showed her potential in a competition in her home town Tallinn , when she could conquer her third Estonian national record this year with 6.80 m, which would have been enough to win the bronze medal at the European Championships. In February Balta sprinted her fourth national record in Kuressaare over the rarely run 50 meters with a time of 6.35 s. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she started again in the long jump, where she failed again with a width of 6.38 m in qualification. Balta proved that she had again been beaten under value at the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart , where she was able to take second place behind Naide Gomes . In March 2009 she achieved this for the first time at a major international event. With a width of 6.87 m, she won the gold medal at the 2009 European Indoor Championships in Turin with a national record and world record for the year . At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin , she finished eighth with 6.62 m.

After a long break as a track and field athlete, Balta started at the 2016 World Indoor Athletics Championships in Portland , where she finished seventh in the final. At the European Championships in Amsterdam , she just barely missed a medal in fourth. Malaika Mihambo had the same distance of 6.65 m but the better second attempt. Thanks to her achievements, she was able to qualify for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she was able to reach sixth place in the final . In 2017, she achieved fifth place with 6.79 m in the final of the European Indoor Athletics Championships . At the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , she finished eighth with 6.57 m. In summer she made it to the finals at the European Championships in Berlin, where she was sixth with a width of 6.49 m.

In the years from 2006 to 2008, 2013, 2016 and 2020 , Balta was Estonian champion in the 100-meter run and in 2008 and 2013 also over 200 meters. In 2008, 2010. 2015, 2016 and 2019 she won the long jump. In the hall she won the 60-meter run in 2008, 2016 and 2017 and the long jump in 2008, 2010 and 2020.

Personal best

• 100 meters: 11.35 s (+ 1.3 m / s), June 15, 2014 in Tartu ( Estonian record )
  • 50 meters (hall): 6.35 s, February 28, 2008 in Kuressaare ( Estonian record )
  • 60 meters (hall): 7.29 s, February 27, 2016 in Tallinn ( Estonian record )
• 200 meters: 23.05 s (+ 1.3 m / s), July 1, 2006 in Arles ( Estonian record )
  • 60 m hurdles (hall): 8.16 s, January 20, 2019 in Tallinn ( Estonian record )
• Long jump: 6.87 m (+ 0.1 m / s), August 8, 2010 in Tallinn ( Estonian record )
  • Hall: 6.87 m, March 7, 2009 in Turin ( Estonian record )
• Heptathlon: 6180 points, July 2nd, 2006 in Arles
  • Pentathlon (hall): 4015 points, January 7, 2005 in Tallinn

Awards

• Estonia's Sportswoman of the Year 2009 and 2016

Web links

Commons : Ksenija Balta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ksenija Balta in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ksenija Balta in the Olympedia.org database (English)
• List of Estonian National Records (Estonian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Naiste seitsmevõistlus . www.kergejoustik.ee. April 8, 2006. Retrieved December 25, 2009.
2. ↑ European Athletics Championships Gothenburg, Sweden August 7-13, 2006 . www.goteborg.com. August 13, 2006. Archived from the original on July 10, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 7, 2009. 
3. ↑ Results - Women's Long Jump Qual Round -. Group B . results.beijing2008.cn. August 19, 2008. Archived from the original on March 16, 2009. Retrieved on March 7, 2009.
4. ↑ Balta break-through with World lead . www.european-athletics.org. March 7, 2009. Accessed March 7, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Eesti aasta naissportlaseks valiti Euroopa master Ksenia Balta . Postimees . December 26, 2009. Retrieved on December 26, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.