Irina Velihanova

Irina Velihanova
nation	Turkmenistan
birthday	17th March 1996 (age 24)
place of birth	Turkmenistan
Career
discipline	Heptathlon
Best performance	5344 points
status	active
Medal table
Indoor Asian Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Indoor Asian Championships bronze Tehran 2018 3730 points
last change: May 12, 2019

Irina Welihanowa (* 17th March 1996 ) is a Turkmen athlete, referring to the heptathlon specializes.

Athletic career

Irina Velihanova competed in her first international competition at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Donetsk , where she finished 3341 with 4341 points. The following year she was at the Indoor Asian Championships in Hangzhou with 2508 points tenth in the indoor pentathlon and finished the Junior World Championships in Eugene with 4347 points in 22nd place. In 2016 she was fourth at the Asian Indoor Championships in Doha with 3524 points, as well as fourth at the Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat 2017, where she reached 3787 points. The following year she won the bronze medal at the Asian Indoor Championships in Tehran with 3730 points behind Iranian Sepideh Tavakoli and Aleksandra Yurkevskaya from Uzbekistan. At the Asian Championships in Doha in 2019, she finished eighth with 5344 points.

In 2018 Welihanova became the Turkmen champion in the heptathlon and in 2017 the indoor champion in the 60 meter hurdles and in 2019 in the indoor pentathlon.

Personal best

• Heptathlon: 5344 points, April 23, 2019 in Doha
  • Pentathlon (hall): 3799 points, January 17, 2019 in Ashgabat ( Turkmen record )
• Javelin throw: 44.80 m, April 28, 2015 in Ashgabat ( Turkmen record )

Web links

• Irina Welihanowa in the database of World Athletics (English)