Ineta Radēviča

Ineta Radēviča after her victory at the 2010 European Championships

Ineta Radēviča (born July 13, 1981 in Krāslava , Latvian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Latvian athlete , who mainly competed in the long jump . She was European champion in 2010.

Career

At the Junior World Championships in Santiago de Chile in 2000 Radēviča reached the final competition in the long jump and took seventh place. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, she competed in both the long jump and the triple jump , but failed in each qualification. In 2005 she was fifth at the European Indoor Championships in Madrid with a width of 6.48 m. In Tallinn , on June 19 of the same year, she improved her personal best to 6.80 m and thus qualified for the World Championships in Helsinki , where, however, she was eliminated again in the preliminary fight with a disappointing distance of 6.18 m. At the 2006 World Indoor Championships in Moscow, she achieved fifth place in the long jump final, her best international result to date. At the European Indoor Championships 2007 in Birmingham she was eighth, at the 2008 World Indoor Championships in Valencia sixth.

She was nominated for the 2008 Summer Olympics , but gave up at short notice because she had become pregnant. After her return to competition in 2010, she achieved her greatest success by winning the gold medal at the European Championships in Barcelona . There she won the long jump with a Latvian record of 6.92 m ahead of the Portuguese Naide Gomes , who achieved the same distance.

At the 2011 World Championships

At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , South Korea , she won the bronze medal with a width of 6.76 m and jumped just one centimeter less than the runner-up Olga Kutscherenko . In 2012 Radēviča came in sixth at the European Championships . Shortly thereafter, she finished fourth in the London Olympics , just an inch behind American Janay DeLoach . At the end of the year, having been voted Latvian Sportswoman of the Year for the third time , she resigned.

Ineta Radēviča is 1.78 m tall and weighed 56 kg at competition times.

Radēviča has been President of the Latvian Athletics Federation since 2017.

Doping ban 2018

In November 2018, Radēviča was provisionally suspended because the banned drug oxandrolone was detected in a subsequent sample from the 2012 Olympic Games . At the end of November 2018, she resigned as President of the Latvian Athletics Federation.

She divorced her first husband, middle-distance runner Viktors Lācis , in 2005. Her second marriage is to the Russian ice hockey player Pyotr Stschastliwy (* 1979).

Personal best

• Long jump: 6.92 m, July 28, 2010, Barcelona
  • Hall: 6.67 m, March 2nd 2007, Birmingham
• Triple jump: 14.12 m, August 21, 2004, Athens
  • Hall: 13.89 m, January 27, 2010, Moscow

Web links

Commons : Ineta Radēviča  - collection of images

• Ineta Radevica in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ineta Radēviča in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ingmar Jurisons: Ineta Radevica Pekina neleks. In: sportacentrs.com. August 9, 2008, accessed July 29, 2010 (Latvian). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jan-Henner Reitze: Ineta Radevica stops , www.leichtathletik.de December 27, 2012
3. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: surprise victory in the women's long jump . July 28, 2010
4. ↑ ^{a b} Pamela Lechner: Flash News of the Day - Four years of doping ban for Kipyegon bed  ( 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. , Notes, from: Leichtathletik.de, November 24, 2018, accessed November 26, 2018  
5. ↑ IOC SANCTIONS TWO ATHLETES FOR FAILING ANTI-DOPING TESTS AT LONDON 2012 (May 10, 2019)
6. ↑ Doping allegations: Latvia's association president resigns , on: ORF-Sport, from November 27, 2018, accessed November 27, 2018