Schanna block

Schanna block
Block 1999 at the World Cup in Seville
nation	Ukraine
birthday	July 6, 1972
place of birth	Nischyn ,  Soviet Union
size	164 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	10.82 s ( 100 m ) 22.17 s ( 200 m )
status	resigned
Medal table
World championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 0 × 0 × 1 × European championships 0 × 3 × 0 × Indoor European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships gold Athens 1997 200 m silver Athens 1997 100 m gold Edmonton 2001 100 m  Indoor world championships bronze Toronto 1993 60 m European championships silver Helsinki 1994 100 m silver Helsinki 1994 200 m silver Budapest 1998 200 m European Indoor Championships gold Genoa 1992 60 m

Zhanna Block ( Ukrainian Жанна Блок ., English transcription Zhanna Block , born Tarnopolska - Тарнопольська - Tarnopolska , in his first marriage Pintussewytsch - Пінтусевич - Pintusevych * 6. July 1972 in Nizhyn , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Ukrainian sprinter .

career

In 1992 she won the European Indoor Championships in Genoa over 60 meters . The following year she won bronze over the same distance at the World Indoor Championships in Toronto . At the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1994 , she won silver over 100 and 200 meters . In 1995 she was fifth at the World Championships in Gothenburg and was eliminated over 200 meters in the run. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , she came eighth over 100 meters and reached the quarterfinals over 200 meters.

In 1997 she won gold over 200 and silver over 100 meters at the World Championships in Athens . 200 meters , and at the 2001 World Championships she won over 100 meters . In 1996 and 2000 she took part in the Olympic Games, where her best placing was fifth over 100 meters in 2000 in Sydney. In the following year, at the European Championships in Budapest, silver over 200 meters and fourth place over 100 meters followed. She was also fourth over 100 meters at the 1999 World Championships in Seville; over 200 meters she did not start in the quarterfinals.

In her second Olympic participation in Sydney in 2000 , she was fourth over 100 meters and seventh over 200 meters. The following year she triumphed at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton over 100 meters.

Doping affair

In 1999 she married the American Mark Block, who also trained her and looked after her as a manager. In 2004, Schanna Block was named as a suspected customer of the doping agent supplier Balco . In 2011, Mark Block was banned for ten years in proceedings brought against him by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for his involvement in the Balco affair. His wife, who last competed in 2006, was suspended for two years from October 6, 2011 for doping rule violations in 2002 and 2003, and all of her results since November 30, 2001 have been nullified.

Affected by this subsequent disqualification were the gold medal over 60 meters at the 2003 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , the silver medal over 100 meters at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis and sixth place over 60 meters at the 2006 World Indoor Championships in Moscow .

Personal bests

• 50 m (hall): 6.09 s, February 2, 1993, Moscow
• 60 m (hall): 7.07 s, February 11, 1993, Madrid
• 100 m: 10.82 s, August 6, 2001, Edmonton
• 200 m: 22.17 s, July 9, 1997, Monachil

Web links

Commons : Zhanna Pintusevich block  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Zhanna Block in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait ( memento from December 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at Tilastopaja OY
• Zhanna Pintusevych-Blok in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ^ Duncan Mackay: Block named on the Balco supply list . In: The Guardian . April 27, 2004.
2. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Manager Mark Block banned for ten years . March 18, 2011
3. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Mark Block given 10-year ban ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Athletics Weekly. March 18, 2011.
4. ↑ Block's coach-husband hit with 10-year ban ( Memento from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: AFP . March 18, 2011.
5. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Zhanna Block banned for two years . December 22, 2011
6. ↑ IAAF: Newsletter # 135 ( Memento of October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 238 kB). August 28, 2012.