Lyudmila Ivanovna Galkina
Lyudmila Ivanovna Galkina ( Russian Людмила Ивановна Галкина , English transcription Lyudmila Galkina ; born January 20, 1972 in Saratow , Russia ) is a former Russian athlete who competed as a junior for the Soviet Union. With a height of 1.72 m, her competition weight was 59 kg.
Lyudmila Galkina was third in the European Junior Championships in long jump in 1989 and in 1991 she was second in the long jump at the European Junior Championships and won the triple jump . In her adult career, she then almost exclusively competed in the long jump.
Her first top placement in an international competition was fifth place with 6.74 m at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart, the Danish Renata Nielsen won bronze with 6.76 m. At the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona in 1995 , Galkina won with a new personal best of 6.95 m. After failing to qualify at the European Championships in 1994 , she also failed to qualify at the 1995 World Championships and the 1996 Olympic Games .
It was not until the 1997 World Championships in Athens that Lyudmila Galkina survived qualifying again. In the fourth attempt of the final, she managed the best jump of her career with 7.05 m and she won ahead of the Greek Niki Xanthou (6.94 m) and the Italian Fiona May (6.91 m). In fourth and fifth place were Heike Drechsler and Jackie Joyner-Kersee, the two most important long jumpers in athletics history.
The next year at the European Championships in Budapest in 1998, Galkina finished third behind Heike Drechsler (gold) and Fiona May (silver) with 7.06 m supported by the wind. At the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Lyudmila Galkina finished fourth with 6.82 m, one centimeter behind Marion Jones from the USA.
At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 Galkina was ninth with a wind-assisted 6.56 m, it was her best result at the Olympic Games. At the World Indoor Championships in 2001 she was sixth with 6.71 m. After an eighth place with 6.70 m at the 2001 World Championships , she managed to win the bronze medal again with 6.68 m at the 2002 European Indoor Championships.
Top performances
- Long jump: 7.05 m (1997)
- Triple jump: 13.67 m (1991), indoors she jumped 13.76 m in 2004
literature
- Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2005. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2005, ISBN 1-899807-27-6 .
Web links
- Lyudmila Galkina in the database of World Athletics (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Galkina, Lyudmila Ivanovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Галкина, Людмила Ивановна; Galkina, Lyudmila |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th January 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saratov |