Lyudmyla Blonska

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Ljudmyla Blonska at the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Lyudmyla Leonidiwna Blonska ( Ukrainian Людмила Леонідівна Блонська , English transcription Lyudmyla Blonska, née Shevchuk ; born November 9, 1977 in Simferopol ) is a former Ukrainian heptathlete .

Career

With 5865 points she finished 13th at the European Championships in Munich in 2002 . In May 2003 it improved in Kharkiv to 6316 points. From 8 June 2003, two years she was due to doping locked after them in a multi-fight meeting in Arles on stanozolol positive test had been.

After her return to the competition, she won the Universiade in İzmir in 2005 with 6297 points . At the 2006 World Indoor Championships in Moscow , she won the pentathlon with 4685 points and 78 points ahead of Karin Ruckstuhl from the Netherlands. At the Mösle all-around meeting in Götzis in 2006 she was second with 6448 points behind the Swede Carolina Klüft . Shortly afterwards she won the all-around meeting in Ratingen . At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 , she finished 5th with 6357 points.

In August 2007 she achieved a personal best in Kiev with 6733 points, which she was able to improve shortly afterwards at the World Championships in Osaka : There Blonska won the silver medal with 6832 points behind Carolina Klüft and ahead of Briton Kelly Sotherton , who already had doubts about the Her competitor's honesty. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , she finished second behind her compatriot Natalja Dobrynska (6733) with 6700 points. Four days after the competition, it was announced that Blonska had tested positive for the anabolic steroid methyltestosterone . On August 21, she was suspended by the IOC's Disciplinary Committee after the B sample was also positive, and on August 22, she was disqualified and excluded from the Games. She was then banned for life as a repeat offender by the Ukrainian Athletics Federation, as was her trainer (and husband) Serhij Blonskyj.

Ljudmyla Blonska was 1.75 m tall and had a competition weight of 62 kg. Her coach was her husband Serhiy Blonskyj, with whom she has two children and lives in Brovary .

literature

  • Hans van Kuijen: 2006 Annual Combined Events. Helmond 2007.
  • Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2007. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2007, ISBN 978-1-899807-49-9 .

Web links

Commons : Lyudmyla Blonska  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. The Times : Kelly Sotherton welcomes heptathlete Blonska's failed drugs test . August 20, 2008
  2. Leichtathletik.de: Lyudmila Blonska tested positive . August 20, 2008
  3. ^ IOC: IOC Disciplinary Commission - Decision of provisional suspension by the chairman regarding Liudmyla Blonska ( Memento of September 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). August 21, 2008
  4. ^ IOC sanctions Liudmyla Blonska for failing anti-doping test. International Olympic Committee , August 22, 2008, accessed April 21, 2018 .
  5. Leichtathletik.de: Lyudmila Blonska banned for life . August 30, 2008
  6. ^ IAAF: Doping Rule Violation ( Memento of February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). November 13, 2008