Julija Leanzjuk

Julija Leanzjuk
Full name	Julija Sjarhejeuna Leanzjuk
nation	Belarus
birthday	31st January 1984 (age 36)
place of birth	Minsk ,  Soviet Union
size	180 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	19.79 m
status	active
Medal table
European Indoor Championships 0 × 1 × 1 × Universiade 0 × 1 × 0 × Youth World Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
European Indoor Championships silver Prague 2015 19.60 m bronze Belgrade 2017 18.32 m  Universiade silver Bangkok 2007 17.20 m  Youth World Championships bronze Debrecen 2001 15.08 m
last change: April 27, 2017

Julija Sjarhejeuna Leanzjuk ( Belarusian Юлія Сяргееўна Леанцюк , English transcription Yuliya Leantsiuk ; born January 31, 1984 in Minsk , Belarusian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Belarusian shot putter .

Athletic career

In 2001 she won the bronze medal at the World Youth Championships in Debrecen, Hungary . In 2002 she finished seventh at the 2002 World Junior Athletics Championships in Kingston, Jamaica . In 2007 she became national indoor champion and fourth at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham . In 2008 she was tested positive for testosterone in a doping control during the European Athletics Cup and was banned for two years for this violation of the doping regulations .

After her comeback season in 2013, she finished seventh at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot in 2014 and qualified for the European Championships in Zurich in August of the same year. She finished in fourth place with a pushed 18.68 m. In the 2015 indoor season, she secured the silver medal at the European Indoor Championships in Prague behind Hungarian Anita Márton . At the World Championships in Beijing , she was seventh. At the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam in 2016 , she finished fourth again. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she was eliminated in qualification .

In 2017 Leanzjuk qualified for the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade and won the bronze medal there.

Personal best

• Shot put: 19.79 m, May 31, 2008 in Brest
  • Hall: 19.00 m, February 20, 2015 in Mahiljou

Web links

• Julija Leanzjuk in the database of World Athletics (English)

Footnotes

1. ^ IAAF: Doping Rule Violation ( Memento of February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). August 28, 2008
2. ↑ http://www.dlv-xml.de/Storage/EventFiles/17IXXXXXXXXX10302/13378.pdf