Sofja Olegovna Palkina

Sofja Palkina
nation	Russia Authorized Neutral Athletes
birthday	9th June 1998 (age 22)
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	72.18 m 71.68 m (3 kg)
status	active
Medal table
Youth World Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
U23 European Championships gold Gävle 2019 71.08 m  Youth World Championships gold Cali 2015 67.82 m (3 kg)
last change: December 11, 2019

Sofja Olegowna Palkina ( Russian Софья Олеговна Палкина , international according to World Athletics spelling Sofiya Palkina ; born  June 9, 1998 ) is a Russian hammer thrower .

Career

Sofja Palkina has so far distinguished herself as a hammer thrower with two international successes.

Palkina threw the 3 kg hammer in 2015 at the Youth World Championships in Cali, Colombia, 67.82 m, which secured her gold in front of Turkish Deniz Yaylacı (67.01 m) and Chinese Shang Ningyu (66.84 m). Also in 2019 at the U23 European Championships in Gävle , Sweden, Palkina was able to achieve gold rank - starting as an " Authorized Neutral Athlete " - when she promoted the sports equipment over 71.08 m in the third attempt and both Belarusian Nastassja Maslawa (69.36 m) as well as Sara Fantini from Italy (68.35 m) left behind.

Web links

• Sofya Palkina in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Profile in the database of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF World Youth Championships - Cali (COL) - 15-19 July 2015 - RESULTS - Hammer Throw (3Kg) Girls - Final. (PDF, 149 KB) In: iaaf.org. Retrieved December 11, 2019 . 
2. ↑ European Athletics U23 Championships Gävle 2019 - Final Results. (PDF, 2.2 MB) In: european-athletics.org. P. 250 , accessed on December 11, 2019 .