Yulia Vladimirovna Sotnikova

Yulia Vladimirovna Sotnikova medal table
Sprinter
Russia
Olympic Summer Games
bronze	2000 Sydney	4 × 400 m
World championships
silver	1995 Gothenburg	4 × 400 m
Indoor world championships
gold	2001 Lisbon	4 × 400 m

Yuliya Vladimirovna Sotnikova ( Russian Юлия Владимировна Сотникова , English transcription Yuliya Vladimirovna Sotnikova ; born November 18, 1970 in Volgograd ) is a former Russian sprinter who specialized in the 400-meter run .

She achieved her best results with the Russian 4 x 400 meter relay . She won the silver medal at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in 1995 and the gold medal at the 2001 World Indoor Athletics Championships in Lisbon with the relay .

Her most important achievement was winning the bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . In the relay she reached the goal in 3: 23.46 minutes behind the teams of the United States and Jamaica, together with Svetlana Goncharenko , Olga Kotlyarova and Irina Priwalova . Since the victorious US team was later disqualified for doping its runner Marion Jones , there is a possibility that the Russian team will move up one rank in the ranking.

Julija Sotnikowa had a competition weight of 60 kg with a height of 1.70 m.

Top performances

• 100 m : 11.53 s, June 2, 2000, Tula
• 400 m: 50.73 s, July 23, 2000, Tula
• 60m (hall): 7.23 s, February 1, 2004, Moscow

Web links

• Yulia Vladimirovna Sotnikowa in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Yuliya Sotnikova in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ olympic.org: IOC announces more stringent measures in its fight against doping , April 10, 2008