Natallja Schykalenka

Natallja Schykalenka ( Belarusian Наталля Шыкаленка , Eng. Transcription Natallia Shykalenka, also Russian Наталья Ивановна Шиколенко - Natalya Ivanovna Schikolenko - Natalya Shikolenko * 1. August 1964 in Andijon , Uzbek SSR ) is a former Belarusian javelin thrower who until 1991 for the Soviet Union and 1992 ran for the Commonwealth of Independent States .

At the World Athletics Championships in Rome in 1987 , she was eliminated from the qualification. At the Goodwill Games in 1990 she won ahead of her sister Tatjana Schikolenko . A year later, at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, she was eleventh.

Natallja Schykalenka won silver for the Commonwealth of Independent States at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona with 68.26 m behind the German Silke Renk , who threw eight centimeters further with 68.34 m.

At the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart both Schykalenka sisters competed for Belarus. Behind the Norwegian Trine Hattestad and the German Karen Forkel , Natallja was third with 65.64 m, ahead of Tatjana with 65.18 m.

While she gave up injured in qualification at the European Championships in Helsinki in 1994 , she won the Grand Prix in the javelin throw in the same year. With 71.40 m she achieved the longest throw of her career on June 5, 1994 in Seville . But she only achieved her greatest success in 1995. She won the World Championships in Gothenburg with 67.52 m and was more than two meters ahead of second-placed Romanian Felicia Țilea .

At the end of her career, she was twelfth at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta with 58.54 m, after she had thrown 62.32 m in qualifying.

In 1990 and 1991 she won the Soviet championship, in 1992 she was champion of the CIS and 1993 champion of Belarus.

Natallja Schykalenka is 1.82 m tall and weighed 79 kg at competition times.

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 1998. Surbiton 1998, ISBN 1-899807-03-9

Web links

• Natalya Shikolenko in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Natallja Schykalenka in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )