Maria Vasilyevna Abakumova
Maria Abakumova 
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| Full name | Maria Vasilyevna Abakumova | ||||||||||||||||||
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| birthday | 15th January 1986 (age 34) | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth |
Stavropol , Soviet Union
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| size | 179 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 70.53 m (September 1, 2013 in Berlin )
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| society | CSKA Moscow | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Alexander Sinitzin | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||
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| last change: May 20, 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
Marija Wassiljewna Abakumowa ( Russian Мария Васильевна Абакумова , English transcription Mariya Abakumova ; born January 15, 1986 in Stavropol ) is a Russian javelin thrower . Her doping offenses during the 2008 Olympic Games up to the 2012 Olympic Games went undetected until 2016.
Career
Abakumowa celebrated her first international success as fourth at the 2003 Junior World Championships in Sherbrooke . In 2007 she increased her best distance compared to the previous season by more than four meters to 64.28 m. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she was seventh with 61.43 m.
Shortly before the 2008 Olympic Games, she broke Tatiana Schikolenko's eight-year-old Russian record on August 2 in Irkutsk with 67.25 m . During the 2008 Games, she was doped, which went undetected for years.
At the World Championships 2011 in Daegu Abakumowa won the gold medal. With her winning distance of 71.99 m, she set a new national and world championship record and moved up to second place in the all-time list of the best. However, this title was stripped from her and the gold medal for the 2012 Olympic Games in London was not her favorite and the defending champion Barbora Špotáková actually won. Abakumowa himself remained with 59.34 m in the final both far behind her season best performance as well as behind her qualifying distance and came only in tenth place.
She got off to a good start in 2013, throwing 69.34 m as early as March, underscoring her ambitions for a gold medal at the world championships . Her long-term competitor Špotáková was also taking a baby break. After a few defeats against Christina Obergföll at various Diamond League meetings, she won the gold medal at the Summer Universiade in Kazan in July . In Moscow she did not succeed in defending her title, with 65.09 m she only won the bronze medal. At the end of the season, however, it increased again. So she won large meetings in Stockholm and Zurich with more than 68 meters each, before breaking the 70-meter mark at the ISTAF in Berlin with 70.53 m and surpassing her own old world record for the year.
In 2008 and 2013 Abakumowa became the Russian javelin champion.
After her doping ban expires in mid-May 2020, Abakumova plans to return to competitive sport, but she still has to repay the prize money, which is problematic given the exchange rate for the ruble.
doping
In 2016 Maria Abakumowa was convicted of doping in the course of an Olympic doping test for the 2008 Olympic Games , subsequently disqualified and her results canceled. With that she lost her silver medal to Christina Obergföll . Further research showed that she practiced doping regularly until 2012, after which all her results up to and including the 2012 Summer Olympics were canceled. She lost another Olympic medal and the 2011 world title.
Web links
- Mariya Abakumova in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait at RusAthletics (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flash-News of the day - Mariya Abakumova: Money worries delay comeback , notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, from May 19, 2020, accessed May 20, 2020
- ^ IOC sanctions four athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. International Olympic Committee , September 13, 2016, accessed April 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Beijing second Abakumowa doped - Obergföll receives Olympic silver 2008 Münstersche Zeitung, September 14, 2016.
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| SURNAME | Abakumowa, Marija Wassiljewna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Абакумова, Мария Васильевна; Abakumova, Mariya |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian javelin thrower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stavropol |