Iryna Yatchanka

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Iryna Jatchanka, 2004
Iryna Jatchanka at the 2007 World Championships

Iryna Wassiljeuna Jattschanka ( Belarusian Ірына Васільеўна Ятчанка , Eng. Transcription Iryna Yatchanka, also Russian Ирина Ятченко - Irina Jattschenko - Irina Yatchenko * 31 October 1965 in Homel ) is a former Belarusian discus thrower .

biography

At the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in 1991 and at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​she was seventh. This was followed by a ninth place at the World Championships in Gothenburg , a twelfth at the 1996 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​a fifth at the World Championships in Athens and a ninth place at the 1999 World Championships in Seville. At the 2000 Games in Sydney she won bronze with a width of 65.20 m. The following year she was ninth at the World Championships in Edmonton . In 2003 she had her greatest success when she won the gold medal at the World Championships with 67.32 m. At the time, at the age of 37, she was the oldest female title holder at World Athletics Championships.

Jattschanka came at the 2004 Olympics in Athens with 66.17 meters again on the bronze medal, her but on December 5, 2012 due to doping with anabolic steroids disallowed was after the IOC doping samples from Athens was re-test with improved methods. In the same year she had achieved her personal best on July 31 in Minsk with 69.14 m. At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 and at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she was tenth, at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing eleventh.

Iryna Jatchanka is 1.85 m tall and weighs 100 kg. She is married to the hammer thrower Ihar Astapkowitsch .

Web links

Commons : Iryna Yatchenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IOC Media Relations Team: IOC disqualifies four medallists from Athens 2004 following further analysis of stored samples ( English ) IOC . December 5, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Yatchanka, Iryna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ятчанка, Ірына Васільеўна (Belarusian); Yatchanka, Iryna; Ятченко, Ирина Васильевна (Russian); Jatchenko, Irina; Yatchenko, Irina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian discus thrower
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Homel