Natalia Dobrynska

Natalia Dobrynska
nation	Ukraine
birthday	29th May 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Vinnytsia ,  Soviet Union
size	182 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
discipline	Heptathlon pentathlon (hall)
Best performance	6778 points (heptathlon) 5013 points (pentathlon)
status	resigned
End of career	2013
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × European championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 1 × 2 × 0 × Indoor European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold Beijing 2008 Heptathlon  European championships silver Barcelona 2002 Heptathlon  Indoor world championships gold Istanbul 2012 Pentathlon silver Budapest 2004 Pentathlon silver Doha 2010 Pentathlon  European Indoor Championships bronze Madrid 2005 Pentathlon

Natalja Dobrynska ( Ukrainian Наталя Добринська , English transcription Natalya Dobrynska ; born May 29, 1982 in Vinnytsia ) is a former Ukrainian heptathlete and Olympic champion .

Career

Her first big success was the silver medal in the pentathlon at the 2004 World Indoor Championships in Budapest. At the Olympic Games in Athens , she was eighth.

In the next few years she was more successful indoors than outdoors. A third and a fifth place at the European Indoor Championships in 2005 and 2007 as well as a fourth place at the 2008 World Indoor Championships in Valencia was ninth place at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, sixth place at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg, and eighth place at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka and fourth place at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.

Her greatest success so far was at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, where she won the gold medal with her personal best of 6733 points ahead of Hyleas Fountain (USA) and Tatyana Chernova (RUS).

At the World Indoor Championships in Doha in 2010 , she improved the Ukrainian indoor record to 4851 points and won the silver medal 86 points behind the British Jessica Ennis .

At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, ​​she also came second.

She won the gold medal at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul in 2012 . She achieved a new indoor world record in the pentathlon. She was the first woman to break the 5000 point mark with 5013 points.

At a height of 1.82 m, her competition weight is 75 kg.

Top performances

Heptathlon

• 6778 points, July 31, 2010, Barcelona

discipline	Result	Points
100 m hurdles	13.59 s	1037
high jump	1.86 m	1054
Shot put	15.88 m	920
200 m	24.23 s	959
Long jump	6.56 m	1027
Javelin throw	49.25 m	846
800 m	2: 12.06 min	935

Pentathlon

• 5013 points, March 9, 2012, Istanbul

discipline	Result	Points
60 m hurdles	8.38 s	1044
high jump	1.84 m	1029
Shot put	16.51 m	962
Long jump	6.57 m	1030
800 m	2: 11.15 min	948

Web links

Commons : Nataliya Dobrynska  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Natalya Dobrynska in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Natalja Dobrynska in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )