Tetjana Samolenko-Dorowskych

Tetjana Samolenko-Dorowskyc
nation	Soviet Union United Team
birthday	August 12, 1961
place of birth	Secretarka
size	168 cm
Weight	54 kg
Career
discipline	Middle distance run
Best performance	3: 57.92 min ( 1500 m ) 8: 26.53 min ( 3000 m )
society	Spartak Zaporizhia
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 1 × World championships 3 × 1 × 0 × European championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 1 × 1 × 0 × Indoor European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Seoul 1988 3000 m bronze Seoul 1988 1500 m silver Barcelona 1992 3000 m  World championships gold Rome 1987 1500 m gold Rome 1987 3000 m gold Tokyo 1991 3000 m silver Tokyo 1991 1500 m European championships silver Stuttgart 1986 1500 m  Indoor world championships gold Indianapolis 1987 3000 m silver Indianapolis 1985 1500 m European Indoor Championships silver Genoa 1992 3000 m
last change: September 5, 2013

Tetjana Samolenko-Dorowskych ( Ukrainian Тетяна Самоленко-Доровских ; Real Name Russian Татьяна Владимировна Самоленко - Tatiana Wladimirowna Samolenko, . Engl transcription Tetyana Samolenko-Dorovskykh or Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh ; * 12. August 1961 in Sekretarka at Orenburg ) is a former Soviet or . Ukrainian athlete . The middle and long distance runner became Olympic champion in 1988 .

At the 1987 World Championships in Rome , she won the gold medal in the 1500 and 3000 meters . At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , she won the bronze medal over 1500 meters behind the Romanian Paula Ivan and her compatriot Laima Baikauskaitė . She won gold over 3000 meters ahead of Paula Ivan and the Briton Yvonne Murray in her personal best of 8: 26.53 minutes. After their marriage, she had a two year break from competition because she became a mother.

At the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo , she won gold over 3000 and silver over 1500 meters. The following year she started for the United Team of the CIS at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , where she finished fourth over 1500 meters in her personal best of 3: 57.92 minutes and won the silver medal over 3000 meters. Shortly before the 1993 World Championships , she was convicted of doping with stanozolol .

She is married to the former Soviet decathlete Oleksandr Apajtschew (* 1961).

Web links

• Tetyana Samolenko-Dorowskych in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Tetjana Samolenko-Dorowskych in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Janofsky: Middle-Distance Star Starts Long Road Back , The New York Times January 29, 1991
2. ↑ Phil Hersh: Big-time Pressure? That's Brazilian Soccer , Chicago Tribune August 8, 1993