Jelena Alexandrovna Afanassjewa
Jelena Alexandrovna Afanassjewa ( Russian Елена Александровна Афанасьева , English transcription Yelena Afanasyeva, née Власова - Vlasowa - Vlasova ; born March 1, 1967 in Kulebaki , she was a former Russian middle-distance runner who started her career in the Soviet Union in 1998, and she started her career in the Soviet Union in 1998 in Kulebaki .
Life
In 1988 she ran - still starting under her maiden name - a time of 1: 57.77 minutes, after marriage and a break from competitions, she returned to the career in 1991. She won her first international medal in 1992 when she competed for the CIS at the European Indoor Championships in Genoa . In 2: 00.69 min she won bronze behind the Romanian Ella Kovacs and her teammate Inna Jewsejewa . A year later at the World Indoor Championships in Toronto , she finished fourth in 2: 01.87 minutes. In the open air at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart , she was eliminated in the preliminary stages.
On February 4, 1994, the Russian 4-by-800-meter relay in Moscow, Olga Kuznetsova , Jelena Afanasjewa, Jelena Saizewa and Jekaterina Podkopajewa, set an indoor world record in 8: 18.71 minutes, which was not broken until 2007. At the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona in 1995 , Afanassjewa won silver in 1: 59.79 minutes behind Maria de Lurdes Mutola from Mozambique. In the 1995 outdoor season she won her first Russian championship title, but was eliminated from the semifinals of the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg . At the 1996 Olympic Games , she reached the final, where she equalized her eight-year-old best in the semifinals. In the final she ran 1: 59.57 min and came in fifth.
In the following year Afanassjewa reached the finals at the world championships for the first time and won the silver medal in 1: 57.56 min behind Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) at the 1997 world championships in Athens . At the finish she was three hundredths of a second ahead of Maria de Lurdes Mutola. One week after the World Championships, she set a new personal best at the Weltklasse Zürich meeting in 1: 56.61 minutes, and the race should remain her fastest. In 1998 she won her second Russian championship. At the European Championships in Budapest in 1998 she was clearly the strongest runner in the field and won in 1: 58.50 minutes ahead of the Swede Malin Ewerlöf and Stephanie Graf from Austria. Afanassjewa had her last major international appearance at the 2001 World Indoor Championships in Lisbon . In 2: 02.17 min she was fifth again.
Jelena Afanassjewa is 1.64 m tall and weighed 56 kg in the competition.
Best times
- 800 meters: 1: 56.61 min (1997)
- 1000 meters: 2: 34.60 min (1998)
- 1500 meters: 4: 07.8 min (1988)
literature
- Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2002. Worcester 2002, ISBN 1-899807-13-6
Web links
- Jelena Afanassjewa in the database of World Athletics (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Afanassjewa, Jelena Alexandrovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Afanasyeva, Yelena; Vlasova, Yelena (maiden name); Vlasowa, Yelena (maiden name); Афанасьева, Елена Александровна (Russian); Власова (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian middle distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kulebaki |