Alexia Sedykh

Alexia Sedykh
nation	France
birthday	13th September 1993 (age 26)
place of birth	Paris , France
size	173 cm
Weight	89 kg
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	70.77 m
society	PLM Conflans
Trainer	Yuri Sedych
status	active
Medal table
U23 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 world championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Youth Olympic Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
U23 European Championships bronze Tampere 2013 66.67 m  Junior World Championships silver Barcelona 2012 67.34 m  Junior European Championships bronze Tallinn 2011 65.02 m  Youth Olympic Games gold Singapore 2010 59.08 m
last change: March 28, 2020

Alexia Sedykh (born September 13, 1993 in Paris ) is a French hammer thrower .

Athletic career

Sedykh was active in various throwing disciplines in her youth, but eventually specialized in hammer throwing. She gained her first international experience at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Brixen , where she took eighth place in the final. She also won the gold medal at the grammar school in Doha. In 2010 she surprisingly won the gold medal at the first ever Youth Olympic Games in Singapore . In 2011 she won the bronze medal with 65.02 meters at the 2011 European Junior Championships in Tallinn . A year later, silver followed at the Junior World Championships in Barcelona behind her compatriot Alexandra Tavernier . In 2013 she took part in the U23 European Championships in Tampere and won the bronze medal there with 66.67 m.

In 2015 Sedykh won the bronze medal at the European Winter Throwing Cup and qualified for the U23 European Championships in Tallinn . There she missed the bronze medal as fourth by more than a meter.

Her coach and father is the two-time Olympic champion and world record holder Jurij Sedych and her mother Natalja Lissowskaja is also an Olympic champion, world champion and world record holder in the shot put. Her parents moved to Paris in 1992 because her father taught at a university. Her half-sister Oxana Kondratjewa , who competes internationally for Russia, is also a successful hammer thrower.

Web links

• Alexia Sedykh in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emeterio Valiente: Barcelona 2012 - Event Report - Women's Hammer Throw ( English ) IAAF. July 14, 2012. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
2. ↑ Two Russian Olympic champions in the doping pillory (March 28, 2020)