Julia Alexandrovna Levina

Julija Alexandrovna Levina ( Russian Юлия Александровна Левина ; born January 2, 1973 in Saratov ) is a Russian rower who took part in the Olympic Games four times.

Athletic career

The 1.84 m tall Julija Lewina won the bronze medal in the double sculls at the unofficial U23 World Championships in 1995 . In 1997 she debuted in the one in the Rowing World Cup , at the 1997 World Championships she finished eighth. In 1998 she switched to the double fours. Oksana Dorodnowa , Julija Lewina, Larissa Merk and Inna Moissejewa won the silver medal behind the German boat at the World Championships in Cologne . In the following year the German double foursome won again at the 1999 World Championships , behind the Ukrainians Oksana Dorodnowa, Julija Levina, Larissa Merk and Olga Samulenkowa received the bronze medal. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , the Germans won the double fours ahead of the British women, while the bronze went to Dorodnowa, Irina Fedotowa , Levina and Merk.

In 2001 Julija Lewina was active in the single, at the 2001 World Championships she won silver behind the German Katrin Rutschow and ahead of the Belarusian Ekaterina Karsten . At the World Championships in 2002 and 2003 Lewina took sixth place in the single. For the Olympic season 2004 Lewina returned in the double fours. In the final of the Olympic regatta , Julija Levina, Larissa Merk, Anna Sergejewa and Oksana Dorodnowa crossed the finish line in fifth place. After the doping disqualification of the Ukrainians who originally placed third, the Russian double foursome moved up to fourth place. In 2005 Lewina returned to the single and finished sixth at the 2005 and 2006 World Championships . After finishing tenth at the 2007 World Championships , she finished sixth at the 2007 European Championships . At the 2008 Olympic Games , Lewina competed with a double scull as at the two previous Olympic Games, and in Beijing she finished seventh.

At the 2009 World Championships Lewina took sixth place in the one, at the 2009 European Championships she won bronze behind Ekaterina Karsten and the Czech Miroslava Knapková . In 2010 Lewina finished fifth both at the 2010 European Championships and at the World Championships . In 2011, the eighth place at the world championships followed the silver medal behind Knapková at the European championships . At her fourth Olympic start in London in 2012 , Lewina competed in the single for the first time and finished ninth, at the European Championships at the end of the Olympic year she reached fourth place. In 2013 Lewina took eighth place at the world championships . In 2014 she reached the A-final again with a fifth place at the European championships and sixth place at the world championships at both international championships. Julija Lewina also tried to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games, but she no longer succeeded.

Web links

• Julija Alexandrowna Lewina in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Julija Alexandrowna Lewina at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )