Ekaterina Ektova

Ekaterina Ektova
Full name	Ekaterina Alexandrovna Ektova
nation	Kazakhstan
birthday	30th August 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Petropavl , Kazakhstan
size	170 cm
Weight	59 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	14.48 m
status	active
last change: February 17, 2019

Jekaterina Alexandrovna Ektova ( Russian Екатерина Александровна Эктова , English transcription Yekaterina Aleksandrovna Ektova ; born August 30, 1992 in Petropawl ) is a Kazakh long and three-jumper .

Career

Yekaterina Ektowa gained her first international experience at the 2007 Youth World Championships in Ostrava , where she was eliminated with 11.88 m in qualification. Two years later she was fourth in the triple jump at the youth world championships in Brixen with 13.36 m and was eliminated in the long jump competition with 5.75 m in the qualification. In 2010 she was at the Junior Asian Championships in Hanoi with 5.97 m and 12.88 m each fourth and thus qualified for the Junior World Championships in Moncton , where she was eliminated with 5.49 m and 12.74 m in the qualification. The following year she was at the Asian Championships in Kobe with 13.88 m sixth in the triple jump and at the Indoor Asian Championships 2012 in Hangzhou fourth with 13.05 m. In 2013 she reached the final at the Summer Universiade in Kazan , which she finished in tenth place with a width of 13.05 m. At the Indoor Asian Championships 2014 in Hangzhou, she reached eighth place with 12.38 m.

In 2016, she was tenth in the long jump at the Asian Indoor Championships in Doha with 5.57 m and qualified in the triple jump for the first time for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she was eliminated with 13.51 m in the qualification .

In 2018 Ektowa became the Kazakh champion in the long jump.

Personal

Yekaterina Ektowa is the sister of the triple jumper Jewgeni Ektow and the sister-in-law of Irina Ektowa , who is also active as a triple jumper. She graduated from North Kazakhstan State University.

Personal best

• Long jump: 6.35 m (+1.5 m / s), May 19, 2015 in Schymkent
  • Long jump (hall): 6.23 m, February 6, 2015 in Öskemen
• Triple jump: 14.48 m (+1.1 m / s), July 27, 2011 in Almaty
  • Triple jump (hall): 13.28 m, January 19, 2019 in Öskemen

Web links

• Jekaterina Ektowa in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Jekaterina Ektowa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )