Aksana Myankova
Aksana Mjankowa ( Belarusian Аксана Мянькова , English transcription Aksana Miankova ; born March 28, 1982 in Krytschau ) is a Belarusian hammer thrower .
Career
At the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 2002 and the World Athletics Championships in 2003 in Paris / Saint-Denis, she failed in the qualification. In the 2006 season she increased her personal best by more than six and a half meters to the Belarusian record of 76.86 meters. On June 29, 2008 she improved this in Minsk to 77.32 m. Shortly afterwards, with the help of doping , she won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Beijing with 76.34 m ahead of Yipsi Moreno (CUB) and Zhang Wenxiu (CHN).
Aksana Myankova is 1.86 m tall and weighs 85 kg.
doping
In a subsequent test of the doping sample from 2008, Myankova tested positive for Turinabol and Oxandrolone in 2016 . She was disqualified by the IOC and her gold medal was revoked .
Web links
- Aksana Miankova in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Aksana Mjankowa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Athlete portrait ( memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on the 2008 Olympic Games website
Individual evidence
- ^ IOC sanctions seven athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. International Olympic Committee , November 25, 2016, accessed April 21, 2018 .
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SURNAME | Myankova, Aksana |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Мянькова, Аксана; Miankova, Aksana |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belarusian hammer thrower |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1982 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Krytschau |