Tatiana Valeryevna Petrova

Petrowa at the Berlin Marathon 2011

Tatiana Valerjewna Petrowa ( Russian Татьяна Валерьевна Петрова , English transcription Tatyana Petrova ; born April 8, 1983 in Karak-Syrmy , Urmary Rajon ) is a Russian long-distance and obstacle runner .

At the Junior World Championships in 2002 she was fourth over 3000 meters and sixth over 5000 meters . Then she started in road races and finished fifth in the Honolulu Marathon in 2004 and third in 2007 and eighth in the Chicago Marathon in 2005 with 2:31:03 h.

However, her greatest successes have so far been achieved in the 3,000-meter obstacle course. Here she won silver at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg and at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka and came third at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing .

In the 2009 season she turned back to the marathon. A fourth place in the Dubai Marathon in 2:25:53 h was followed by a victory in the Los Angeles Marathon in 2:25:59 h. At the Berlin Marathon 2011 she achieved her personal best of 2:25:01 h (5th place ). With a new personal best, she won the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London .

Tatiana Petrowa is 1.60 m tall and weighs 53 kg.

Personal best

discipline	power	date	place
3000 meters	008: 44.13 min	June 24, 2006	Zhukovsky
5000 meters	015: 46.58 min	June 27, 2003	Cheboksary
10,000 meters	032: 17.49 min	June 14, 2005	Tula
10 km road run	032:10 min	March 24, 2007	mobile
15 km road run	049:52 min	July 11, 2004	Utica
marathon	2:23:29 h	5th August 2012	London
3000 meters obstacle	009: 09.19 min	August 27, 2007	Osaka

Web links

Commons : Tatyana Petrova  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Tatyana Petrova in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
• Tatiana Valeryevna Petrowa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )