Inga Eduardowna Abitowa

Inga Abitowa (left) and Hilda Kibet at the 2010 European Athletics Championships

Inga Eduardowna Abitowa ( Russian Инга Эдуардовна Абитова ; English transcription Inga Abitova ; born March 6, 1982 in Novokuibyshevsk ) is a Russian long-distance runner .

Life

Abitowa won gold in the 10,000 meter run at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg with her personal record of 30: 31.42 minutes. This was also the seventh fastest time ever run by a European. In 2005 she won the Belgrade Marathon in 2:38:20 h. In 2006 she improved her time in second in the Mumbai Marathon to 2:33:55 h.

At the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, she was twelfth over 10,000 meters and sixth at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing over the same distance.

In 2009 she was sixth in the London Marathon in 2:25:55 h, ninth in the World Half Marathon Championships in Birmingham and won the first edition of the Yokohama Marathon in 2:27:18 h. In 2010 she finished second in the London Marathon and improved her personal record by over three minutes. In the same year she won the silver medal in the 10,000 meter run at the European Championships in Barcelona .

In November 2012, she was banned from the Russian Federation for two years on the basis of changes in her hemoglobin value stated in her blood passport. All results from October 10th, 2009 have been deleted retrospectively.

doping

In 2016, the anabolic steroid dehydrochloromethyltestosterone was detected in a doping sample at the 2008 Olympic Games , after which Abitova was subsequently disqualified and banned by the Russian Federation for four years.

Personal bests

• 3000 m : 9: 02.88 min, August 20, 2006, Birmingham
• 5000 m : 15: 15.05 min, July 15, 2006, Tula
• 10,000 m: 30: 31.42 min, August 7, 2006, Gothenburg
• Half marathon : 1:09:53 h, October 11, 2009, Birmingham
• Marathon : 2:22:19 h, April 25, 2010, London

Web links

Commons : Inga Abitowa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Inga Abitowa in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
• Inga Eduardowna Abitowa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ IAAF: Abitova takes inaugural Yokohama Women's Marathon ( Memento of 16 November 2009 at the Internet Archive ). November 15, 2009.
2. ↑ Russian silver winner doped from London , Spiegel Online November 8, 2012.
3. ^ Silke Bernhart: Inga Abitowa blocked , www.leichtathletik.de November 7, 2012.
4. ^ IOC sanctions four athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 , IOC, September 13, 2016.
5. ↑ Martin Neumann: Flash News of the Day - Post-Tests: Russian Trio blocked  ( 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, June 22, 2017, accessed June 22, 2017.