Irina Alexandrovna Meleschina

Irina Alexandrovna Meleschina
nation	Russia
birthday	25th May 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Ryazan , Russia
size	170 cm
Weight	58 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	7.27 m (July 31, 2004 in Tula )
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × Indoor world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Summer Universiade 1 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Athens 2004 7.05 m  Indoor world championships bronze Valencia 2008 6.88 m  Universiade gold Daegu 2003 6.49 m  U23 European Championships silver Bydgoszcz 2003 6.70 m

Irina Alexandrowna Meleschina ( Russian Ирина Александровна Мелешина ; born Simagina, Russian Симагина ; born May 25, 1982 in Ryazan ) is a Russian long jumper .

The winner of the Universiade of 2003 reached a width of 7.27 m in Tula on July 31, 2004 , which puts her in eleventh place in the all-time world rankings (as of February 2013) . Shortly thereafter, she won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Athens behind Tatiana Lebedewa and in front of Tatiana Kotowa . The three Russian women were just two centimeters apart.

After a baby break in 2006, she reported back at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 2008 in Valencia with a third place, but at the 2009 World Championships she did not reach the final. In February 2012 she was convicted of doping with testosterone and banned for two years.

Irina Meleschina is 1.70 m tall and weighs 58 kg.

Web links

• Irina Meleschina in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Irina Alexandrowna Meleschina in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Irina Meleschina (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Long Jump All Time ( English ) IAAF . Retrieved January 12, 2016.
2. ↑ Athletes currently suspended ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , IAAF November 2nd, 2012