Iolanda Evgenevna Chechnya

Iolanda Tschen (2010)

Iolanda Evgenjewna Tschen ( Russian Иоланда Евгеньевна Чен , English transcription : Iolanda Chen ; born July 26, 1961 in Moscow ) is a former Russian athlete who had her greatest successes in the triple jump .

Life

Tschen began her sporting career as a pentathlete and then specialized in the long jump . In this discipline, she won silver at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in The Hague and gold at the Universiade in 1989 . At the European Athletics Championships in 1990 in Split, she was fifth.

In 1992 she switched to the triple jump. She won silver at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Toronto in 1993 , and in June she set a world record with 14.97 m at the Russian Championships, which she won ahead of runner-up Inna Lasovskaya . Two months later she won silver at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart with a distance of 14.70 m behind Anna Birjukowa , who with 15.09 m was the first woman to jump over 15 meters. In 1994 she was fourth at the European Championships in Helsinki , and in 1995 she won the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona with 15.03 m, becoming the first woman in the hall to break the 15-meter mark. In the summer, an eleventh place followed at the World Championships in Gothenburg .

In preparation for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, she was seriously injured and had to quit competitive sports.

In 1993 and 1994 she became Russian champion indoors, in 1993 and 1995 outdoors.

Iolanda Chen is 1.70 m tall and weighed 55 kg during her active time. Her father Yevgeny Tschen was one of the world's top triple jumpers in the 1950s and later made a name for himself as a sports journalist. Her great-grandfather was Chen Youren (actually Eugene Bernard Acham; 1878-1944), a native of Trinidad , who was an advisor to Sun Yat-sen in the 1920s and later became the Republic of China's foreign minister . She herself was named after her great aunt Yolanda or Yu-Lan Chen (1913-2006), who worked as a filmmaker in the Soviet Union.

Her husband is the former pole vaulter Yevgeny Bondarenko . Before that, she was married to the pole vaulter Vladimir Trofimenko , then to the sprinter Nikolai Chernetsky . She works as a sports commentator for various television channels. In 1996 she posed for the Russian edition of Playboy . Erotic photographs with BDSM elements followed in 2001 for the magazine Sports-Klub. In 2004 she underwent liposuction .

Personal best

• Long jump: 7.16 m, July 30, 1988, Moscow
  • Hall: 7.05 m, February 4, 1989, Homel
• Triple jump: 14.97 m, June 18, 1993, Moscow
  • Hall: 15.03 m, March 11, 1995, Barcelona

Web links

• Iolanda Chen in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Иоланда Чен: “Мой прадед был другом Мао Цзэдуна” , interview with Yevgeny Myasnikov in Argumenty i Fakty , November 28, 2000
• Иоланда Чен: хочется сделать жизнь чуть-чуть увлекательнее , interview by Tatiana Alexejewa on the website of the city of Moscow, November 24, 2004 (Russian)

Footnotes

1. ^ "Results without national leagues", Sport-Bild from June 23, 1993, p. 50
2. ↑ gbrathletics: Russian Championships
3. ↑ gbrathletics: Russian Indoor Championships
4. ↑ Playboy Cover Archive: March 1996 (Russia) ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Komsomolskaya Pravda : Иоланда Чен стала садомазохисткой. На фотографиях . October 10, 2001