Ekaterina Gennadjewna Volkova

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Volkova (right) at the 2007 World Championships

Jekaterina Gennadjewna Wolkowa ( Russian Екатерина Геннадьевна Волкова , English transcription Yekaterina Volkova ) (born February 16, 1978 in Schelesnogorsk ), is a former Russian obstacle and long-distance runner .

Sports career

Wolkowa's international debut was also the debut of her favorite discipline: The 3000 meter obstacle was part of the World Championships for the first time at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 . Jekaterina Wolkowa won the silver medal in 9: 20.49 minutes behind Dorcus Inzikuru (UGA) in 9: 18.24 minutes and ahead of Jeruto Kiptum Kiptubi (KEN) in 9: 26.95 minutes. In 2007, like in 2005, she became Russian champion and improved to 9: 13.35 min; On top of that, she also won the national title in the 5000 meter run .

At the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, she won the gold medal with her personal best of 9: 06.57 min. So far (as of August 2009) only Gulnara Galkina was faster in this discipline. In 2009 she was eliminated from the World Championships in Berlin .

Ekaterina Volkova started for the Kursk City Army Sports Club .

doping

In 2016, a follow-up test of Volkova's doping sample from the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing turned out positive for the substance dehydrochloromethyltestosterone . The International Olympic Committee then requested the IAAF World Athletics Federation to cancel Volkova's bronze medal . This request was granted.

Best times

  • 1500 m : 4: 09.03 min, July 24, 2005, Tula
  • 1 mile : 4: 29.60 min, June 15, 2005, Tula
  • 2000 m: 5: 41.61 min, May 27, 2007, Sochi
  • 3000 m : 8: 54.64 min, June 24, 2006, Kazan
  • 5000 m: 15: 00.02 min, August 3, 2007, Tula
  • 3000 m obstacle: 9: 06.57 min, August 27, 2007, Osaka

Web links

Commons : Yekaterina Volkova  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IOC sanctions nine athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008. International Olympic Committee , October 26, 2016, accessed on April 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Volkova, Ekaterina Gennadjewna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Волкова, Екатерина Геннадьевна; Volkova, Yekaterina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian long-distance and obstacle runner
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Zheleznogorsk (Kursk)