Natalia Petrovna Khrushchelyova

Natalia Petrovna Khrushchelyova medal table
800-meter run, 4 x 400-meter relay
Russia
World championships
bronze	2003 Paris	800 m
European championships
silver	1994 Helsinki	4 × 400 m
silver	1998 Budapest	4 × 400 m

Natalja Petrovna Khrushchelyeva ( Russian: Наталья Петровна Хрущелёва , English transcription Nataliya Khrushchelyeva ; born March 20, 1973 in Tawda ) is a former Russian athlete . A middle distance athlete by birth , she was also used in the 4 x 400 meter relay in her country.

Khrushchelyova took part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, where she narrowly missed the finals in the 800-meter run as fifth in the semi-finals.

At the European Athletics Championships in Budapest in 1998, Khrushchelyova won the silver medal in the 4-by-400-meter relay together with Svetlana Gontscharenko , Yekaterina Bachwalowa and Olga Kotlyarova . The Russian team only had to admit defeat to the German team - Anke Feller , Uta Rohländer , Silvia Rieger and Grit Breuer - (3: 23.03 min) in 3: 23.56 minutes and were able to beat the third-placed British by more than two seconds distance.

Khrushchelyova celebrated her greatest international success in an individual discipline at the 2003 World Athletics Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis, when she was third in the 800-meter run in 2: 00.29 minutes behind Maria de Lurdes Mutola from Mozambique (1:59, 89 min) and the British Kelly Holmes (2: 00.18 min) was. In 2003 Khrushchelyova was also the Russian champion in the 800-meter run.

Khrushchelyova is 1.66 m tall and weighed 51 kg at competition times.

Best times

• 400 m : 51.49 s, July 23, 2000, Tula
  • Hall: 52.46 s, January 19, 2001, Moscow
• 800 m: 1: 56.59 min, July 31, 2004, Tula
  • Hall: 2: 00.68 min, February 15, 2004, Karlsruhe

Web links

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