Irina Nikolaevna Korschanenko

Irina Korzhanenko ( Russian Ирина Николаевна Коржаненко ., English transcription Irina Korzhanenko * 16th May 1974 in Azov ) is a former Russian shot putter , who because of doping an Olympic gold medal stripped was.

Career

1995 Korschanenko became the first Russian champion. At the World Championships in Gothenburg she finished twelfth with 17.88 m in the same year, and at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta she was the 1.78 m tall and 85 kg heavy athlete with 18.68 m eighth. At the World Indoor Championships in Paris in 1997 , she won the bronze medal with 19.49 m behind Wita Pawlysch from the Ukraine and the German Astrid Kumbernuss . In the same year she won the Universiade in Catania with 19.39 meters. At the 1997 World Championships in Athens, she could not qualify for the final with 17.80 m.

At the European Indoor Championships in Valencia in 1998, she won the title with 20.25 m and was 25 centimeters ahead of Wita Pawlysch. Outdoors at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, she hit the ball to 19.71 m. Almost two meters behind Pavlysch, she won the silver medal. At the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi in 1999 , the two athletes set themselves apart from the rest of the field. Pavlysch hit the furthest with 21.43 m, Korschanenko reached 20.56 m. However, both athletes were convicted of doping, so that in retrospect the Russian Swetlana Kriweljowa with 19.08 m was declared the winner.

After the two-year ban, Korschanenko returned to the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton and took fifth place with 19.35 m, she was six centimeters behind the Pawlysch, who was also entitled to start again, who won bronze. In 2002 Irina Korschanenko then won the title at the 2002 European Championships in Munich. At 20.64 m she was 62 cm ahead of Pavlysch, who won silver. At the World Indoor Championships 2003 in Birmingham Korschanenko won with 20.56 m before the Belarusian Nadseja Astaptschuk with 20.31 m. Outdoors at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis, Korschanenko finished fourth with 19.17 m.

After Wita Pawlysch was disqualified again for doping at the 2004 World Indoor Championships and was waiting for the announcement of the life ban, Korschanenko was one of the closest favorites for the 2004 Olympic Games . The shot put competitions were not held in Athens, but at a historic site in Olympia . Korschanenko was clearly superior to all other athletes and won with 21.06 m in front of the Cuban Yumileidi Cumbá with 19.59 m, the German Nadine Kleinert with 19.55 m and Swetlana Kriweljowa with 19.49 m. Already during the Olympic Games it became known that Korschanenko had been convicted of doping with stanozolol . She was disqualified and the three other pushers advanced while Korschanenko refused to return the medal she had already received to the IOC . Korschanenko was later banned for life as a repeat offender.

Irina Korschanenko is 1.78 m tall and weighed 85 kg at competition times.

literature

• Peter Matthews: Athletics 2005. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2005, ISBN 1-899807-27-6 .

Web links

• Irina Korzhanenko in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Irina Nikolajewna Korschanenko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Korschanenko disqualified. n-tv , August 23, 2004, accessed April 21, 2018 .