Ludmila Engquist

Ludmila Engquist
nation	Soviet Union Sweden
birthday	April 21, 1964
place of birth	Kriuscha ,  Soviet Union
size	174 cm
Weight	66 kg
Career
discipline	Hurdles
Best performance	12.26 s ( 100 m hurdles )
society	Spartak Michurinsk / IFK Lidingö
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 2 × 0 × 1 × Indoor World Cup 1 × 1 × 0 × Indoor European Championships 2 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Atlanta 1996 100 m hurdles  World championships gold Tokyo 1991 100 m hurdles gold Athens 1997 100 m hurdles bronze Seville 1999 100 m hurdles  Indoor world championships silver Budapest 1989 60 m hurdles gold Seville 1991 60 m hurdles European Indoor Championships silver The Hague 1989 60 m hurdles gold Glasgow 1990 60 m hurdles gold Genoa 1992 60 m hurdles

Ludmila Engquist (born Russian Людмила Викторовна Леонова , Lyudmila Viktorovna Leonova, married Нарожиленко - Naroschilenko, Engl. Transcription Lyudmila Narozhilenko-Leonova * 21st April 1964 in Kriuscha , Oblast Tambov , Soviet Union ) is a former Swedish hurdler Russian origin.

Success for Russia

She had her first major success in 1986 in Bryansk , where she ran the 100 meter hurdles in 13.41 s. In 1991 she won gold at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo and ran a personal best of 12.26 seconds in Seville in 1992 .

In 1993, she was given a four-year ban for illicit doping, which was lifted early in 1995 when it was suspected that her then-husband Nikolai Naroshilenko, from whom she divorced in 1992, had administered the steroids to her without her knowledge, disguised as vitamin pills .

Sweden

Before the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 , she became a Swedish citizen.

In Atlanta she was Olympic champion in the 100 m hurdles ahead of the Slovenian Brigita Bukovec and the French Patricia Girard . For this achievement they voted the listeners of Sveriges Radio the winner of the radio sport Jerringpris . She won the 1997 World Championships in Athens , for which she was also honored with the Svenska Dagbladet gold medal.

The career of the Engquist, celebrated like a national heroine in Sweden, then got a kink when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to amputate a breast . Nevertheless, she fought her way to the top again and was third at the World Athletics Championships in Seville in 1999 and was again honored with the radio sport Jerringpris.

Winter sports

In 2001 she finished seventh in the World Cup in bobsleigh at Olympic Park in Utah .

Since 2000 she has lived in Spain with her second husband, the Swede Johan Engquist.

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2000. Surbiton 2000, ISBN 1-899807-07-1

Web links

• Ludmila Engquist in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Lyudmila Narozhilenko-Engquist in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )