Svyatlana Buraha

Swjatlana Buraha ( Belarusian Святлана Бурага , English transcription Svetlana Buraga ; born September 4, 1965 in Minsk ) is a former Belarusian athlete who was particularly successful in the heptathlon .

Starting for the Soviet Union , she finished fourteenth in the heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships in Rome in 1987 with 5982 points. In the same year she won the European Athletics Cup of all- around fighters in Arles with 6507 points . In 1988 she was tenth at the Olympic Games in Seoul with 6232 points.

She celebrated the greatest success of her career as a starter for Belarus at the 1993 World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart . With a personal best and a national record of 6635 points, she won the bronze medal behind Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Sabine Braun . In 1995 Buraha was fourth in the pentathlon at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Barcelona with 4466 points .

Swjatlana Buraha is 1.68 m tall and had a competition weight of 56 kg.

Top performances

• Heptathlon: 6635 points, 16. – 17. August 1993, Stuttgart
  • 200 m : 23.69 s (1011 points)
  • 800 m : 2: 13.65 min (912 points)
  • 100 m hurdles : 12.95 s (1132 points)
  • High jump : 1.84 m (1029 points)
  • Long jump : 6.58 m (1033 points)
  • Shot put : 14.55 m (831 points)
  • Javelin throw :? (687 points)

Web links

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