Svetlana Valentinovna Goncharenko

Svetlana Valentinovna Goncharenko medal table
Sprinter
Russia
Olympic games
bronze	2000 Sydney	4 × 400 m
World championships
gold	1999 Seville	4 × 400 m
silver	1995 Gothenburg	4 × 400 m
European championships
silver	1998 Budapest	4 × 400 m
silver	1994 Helsinki	400 m
Indoor world championships
gold	1999 Maebashi	4 × 400 m
gold	1997 Paris	4 × 400 m
gold	1995 Barcelona	4 × 400 m
silver	2004 Budapest	200 m
silver	1999 Maebashi	200 m
bronze	1997 Paris	200 m
European Indoor Championships
gold	1998 Valencia	200 m
gold	1994 Paris	400 m

Svetlana Walentinovna Goncharenko ( Russian Светлана Валентиновна Гончаренко ; born May 28, 1971 in Rostov-on-Don ) is a former Russian sprinter . She was particularly successful in the 200-meter run and with the Russian 4-by-400-meter relay .

Life

She first appeared internationally in the 400-meter run . In 1994 she won the gold medal on this track at the European Indoor Championships in Paris and the silver medal at the European Championships in Helsinki behind the French Marie-José Pérec .

In 1995 she won the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona, the first of many international medals with the Russian 4 x 400 meter relay. The next followed in the same year with second place at the World Championships in Gothenburg .

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, however, she missed the relay to make it into the finals. In the 400-meter run she reached the semi-finals. At the World Indoor Championships in Paris in 1997 , she won the relay in the then world record time of 3: 26.84 minutes and won the bronze medal over 200 m.

In 1998 she was European indoor champion over 200 meters in Valencia and took second place in the relay at the European Championships in Budapest . In 1999 she was second in the 200-meter run behind the Romanian Ionela Târlea at the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi and won the gold medal with the relay in the then world record time of 3: 24.25 min. Another victory with the relay followed in the same year at the World Championships in Seville .

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , she finished third in the Russian 4-by-400-meter relay together with Julija Sotnikowa , Olga Kotlyarova and Irina Priwalowa . Since the victorious US team was later disqualified for doping its runner Marion Jones , there is a possibility that the Russian team will move up one rank in the ranking.

At the 2004 World Indoor Championships in Budapest Goncharenko won the silver medal in the 200-meter run. She had originally only reached the goal in third place, but benefited from the subsequent disqualification of her compatriot Anastassija Kapatschinskaja for doping. In addition, Goncharenko was twice Russian champion, in 1996 over 400 and 1997 over 200 meters.

Svetlana Goncharenko was 1.76 m tall and weighed 61 kg.

Top performances

• 100 m : 11.13 s, July 5, 1998, Linz
• 200 m: 22.46 s, July 27, 1998, Thessaloniki
• 400 m: 50.23 s, July 23, 2000, Tula

Web links

• Svetlana Walentinowna Goncharenko in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ olympic.org: IOC announces more stringent measures in its fight against doping , April 10, 2008
2. ↑ gbrathletics.com: Russian Championships