Alina Talaj

Alina Talaj
Full name	Alina Henadseuna Talaj
nation	Belarus
birthday	14th May 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Orsha ,  Soviet Union
size	164 cm
Weight	54 kg
Career
discipline	100 meter hurdles
Best performance	12.41 s
Trainer	Viktor Myasnikov , Philip Winfried
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European championships 1 × 1 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 2 × 0 × U23 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World championships bronze Beijing 2015 100 m H  European championships gold Helsinki 2012 100 m H silver Amsterdam 2016 100 m H  European Indoor Championships silver Gothenburg 2013 60 m H gold Prague 2015 60 m H silver Belgrade 2017 60 m H  U23 European Championships bronze Kaunas 2009 100 m H gold Ostrava 2011 100 m H
last change: March 4, 2017

Alina Henadseuna Talaj ( Belarusian Аліна Генадзеўна Талай , English transcription Alina Talay ; born May 14, 1989 in Orscha ) is a Belarusian hurdler who specializes in the 100 meter distance .

Athletic career

At the European Championships in Barcelona in 2010 , she reached the semi-finals, but was disqualified there. Over 60 m hurdles she was fifth at the European Indoor Championships 2011 in Paris and won bronze at the 2012 Indoor World Championships in Istanbul.

At the European Championships in Helsinki she won the original silver medal, but she was awarded the gold medal in 2015 because the winner, Nevin Yanit, was disqualified for doping. At the Olympic Games in London shortly afterwards, she reached the semifinals in a new personal best. In March 2015 she won the gold medal in the 60-meter hurdles at the European Indoor Championships in Prague, Czech Republic .

At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, she won the bronze medal over 100 m hurdles. In 2016 she won the silver medal at the European Championships in Amsterdam . At the European Indoor Athletics Championships in 2017 , she failed to defend her title from Prague one more time, but won the silver medal behind German Cindy Roleder . At the European Championships 2018 in Berlin, Talaj reached the final run, where she was disqualified.

Personal bests

• 60 m hurdles (hall): 7.85 s, March 6, 2015, Prague
• 100 m hurdles: 12.41 s (+0.5 m / s), May 31, 2018, St. Pölten

Web links

Commons : Alina Talay  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Alina Talay in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.dlv-xml.de/Storage/EventFiles/17IXXXXXXXXX10302/13387.pdf