Elina Swerava

Elina Swerava
nation	Soviet Union Belarus
birthday	November 16, 1960
place of birth	Dolgoprudny
size	183 cm
Weight	100 kg
Career
discipline	Discus throw
Best performance	71.58 m
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 1 × World championships 2 × 1 × 0 × European championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Atlanta 1996 Discus throw gold Sydney 2000 Discus throw  World championships gold Gothenburg 1995 Discus throw silver Athens 1997 Discus throw gold Edmonton 2001 Discus throw European championships silver Helsinki 1994 Discus throw

Elina Aljaksandrauna Swerawa ( belarusian Эліна Аляксандраўна Зьверава , engl. Transcription Elina Zverava, Russian Эллина Александровна Зверева , Ellina Aleksandrovna Zvereva / Ellina Zvereva ; * 16th November 1960 in Dolgoprudny ) is a white Russian discus .

Swerawa has competed in discus since 1979. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 , she finished 5th. At the 1992 games in Barcelona she was banned for steroid doping, but then won the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg after her return in 1993 . The bronze medal followed at the 1996 Games in Atlanta . The following year Swerawa reached 2nd place at the 1997 World Championships in Athens . She won the gold medal in her discipline at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . At the time, at 39, she was the oldest female track and field gold medalist in history.

After this triumph, she again took second place at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton , but was declared world champion four years later because Natalia Sadova , who had previously been in first place, had too high caffeine levels in the competition .

Successes in detail

• 1995, World Championships Gothenburg : 1st place (68.64 m)
• 1996, Olympic Games Atlanta : 3rd place (65.64 m)
• 1997, World Championships Athens : 2nd place (65.90 m)
• 2000, Olympic Games Sydney : 1st place (68.40 m)
• 2001, World Championships Edmonton : 1st place (67.10 m)

Web links

• Elina Swerawa in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Elina Swerawa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )