Tatiana Azarova

Tatiana Azarova
Full name	Tatiana Nikolaevna Azarova
nation	Kazakhstan
birthday	2nd December 1985
place of birth	Ekibastus ,  Kazakh SSR , USSR
size	165 cm
Weight	54 kg
job	Mechanical engineer
Career
discipline	400 m hurdles
Best performance	54.78 s
Trainer	Konstantin Ivanovich Golynski Albina Viktorovna Antonenko
National squad	since 2001
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games silver 2006 Doha 4 × 400 m relay Asia indoor games bronze 2005 Bangkok 400 m hurdles gold 2009 Hanoi 4 × 400 m relay Indoor Asian Championships silver 2006 Pattaya 400 m hurdles silver 2008 Doha 400 m hurdles Summer Universiade gold 2007 Bangkok 400 m hurdles
last change: September 19, 2012

Tatiana Nikolajewna Azarova ( Russian Татьяна Николаевна Азарова , English transcription Tatyana Azarova ; born December 2, 1985 in Ekibastus ) is a former Kazakh hurdler of Russian origin who specialized in the 400-meter distance .

She played her first international competition at the age of 15 in July 2001 at the second World Athletics Championships in Debrecen, but was eliminated there in the preliminary stages. At the Athletics Junior Asian Championships in 2004 in Ipoh she won bronze with 58.59 s, at the Junior Athletics World Championships in Grosseto a month later she was sixth with 58.41 s.

In her first international competition in the adult area, the Asian Championships in 2005 in Incheon , she was seventh. In 2006 she was sixth at the Asian Games in Doha and won silver with the Kazakh team in the 4 x 400 meter relay . At the 2007 Summer Universiade , she won gold in 55.52 seconds.

In 2007 she reached the semi-finals at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka . At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the 2009 World Championships in Berlin and the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she did not get past the lead.

In 2007 Tatiana Azarova competed in Almaty as well as in an indoor competition in Macau in the 400-meter run.

She is married and has a son.

In 2008 she successfully completed a degree in turbine construction at the Ekibastus Technical University.

Personal bests

• 400 m: 52.39 s, June 9, 2007, Almaty
  • Hall: 53.68s, October 31, 2007, Macau
• 400 m hurdles: 54.78 s, May 11, 2007, Almaty

Web links

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