Yulia Sergeyevna Pechonkina

Julia Pechonkina
Pechonkina at the 2007 World Championships
nation	Russia
birthday	April 21, 1978
place of birth	Krasnoyarsk
size	176 cm
Weight	66 kg
Career
discipline	Sprint , hurdles
Best performance	52.34 s ( 400 m ) 53.22 s ( 400 m hurdles )
status	resigned
End of career	2009
Medal table
World championships 2 × 3 × 2 × Indoor World Cup 2 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships silver Edmonton 2001 400 m hurdles bronze Edmonton 2001 4 × 400 m silver Paris 2003 4 × 400 m bronze Paris 2003 400 m hurdles gold Helsinki 2005 400 m hurdles gold Helsinki 2005 4 × 400 m silver Osaka 2007 400 m hurdles  Indoor world championships gold Lisbon 2001 4 × 400 m gold Birmingham 2003 4 × 400 m

Yuliya Pechonkina ( Russian Юлия Сергеевна Печёнкина . English transcription Yuliya Pechonkina , born Nossowa , Носова - Nosova * 21st April 1978 in Krasnoyarsk ) is a former Russian hurdler who at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki Gold 400 meter hurdles won . In addition, on August 8, 2003, she improved the world record in this discipline to 52.34 s, which was the highest performance by July 2019.

In the 2006 season, she blocked a foot injury that she tried to heal with vodka compresses.

Petschonkina had to cancel her participation in the 2009 World Championships in Berlin due to a sinus infection and ended her sports career in the same year.

In follow-up tests carried out in 2016 for the 2005 championships, Pechonkina was also suspected of having taken doping substances.

She is 1.76 m tall and last weighed 66 kg.

successes

• 2000: Participation in the Olympic Games in Sydney (400 meter hurdles - eliminated in the semifinals)
• 2001: 2nd place World Championships in Edmonton (400 meter hurdles), 8th place IAAF Grand Prix Final (400 meter hurdles)
• 2002: World Cup winner (400 meter hurdles), 5th place European Indoor Championships (400 meters)
• 2003: 3rd place World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis (400 meter hurdles)
• 2004: 8th place Olympic Games in Athens (400 meter hurdles)
• 2005: 1st place World Championships in Helsinki (400 meter hurdles), 2nd place World Athletics Final (400 meter hurdles)

Top performances

• 400 meters : 53.22 s, July 1, 2001, Glasgow
• 400 meter hurdles : 52.34 s, August 8, 2003 in Tula (world record)

Performance development

year	400 meter hurdles (in seconds)
1996	57.04
1997	57.53
1998	56.13
1999	53.98
2000	54.31
2001	53.84
2002	53.10
2003	52.34
2004	53.31
2005	52.90

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alcohol problem slows down world record holder Petschonkina , RP online, September 5, 2006; accessed on August 13, 2016
2. ↑ Hurdle star Pechonkina has to cancel World Cup , www.spox.com, August 8, 2009; accessed on August 13, 2016
3. ↑ Российские призеры ЧМ-2005 подозреваются в употреблении допинга , Sportbox.ru , April 4, 2016; accessed on August 13, 2016