Tetiana Petlyuk

Tetiana Petlyuk
Tetjana Petlyuk (2019)
nation	Ukraine
birthday	February 22, 1982
place of birth	Kiev ,  Ukraine
size	174 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
discipline	Middle distance run
status	unknown
Medal table
Indoor world championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Indoor world championships silver 2008 Valencia 800 m  European Indoor Championships silver 2007 Birmingham 800 m

Tetjana Hryhorivna Petljuk ( Ukrainian Тетяна Григорівна Петлюк ; born February 22, 1982 in Kiev ) is a Ukrainian athlete who specializes in the 800 meters . Her personal best is 1: 57.34 minutes, which she achieved in June 2006 in Kiev. Her best time in the hall is 1: 58.67 minutes, which she achieved in 2007.

Petlyuk was a talented runner from a young age, winning gold at the European Youth Olympic Festival , silver at the 1999 World Youth Championships , then bronze at the 2001 European Junior Athletics Championships . From 2004 to 2009 she was the best 800m runner in Ukraine and won seven national titles during that period.

She represented Ukraine at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and 2008 in Beijing and reached the semifinals on both occasions. She was also a semi-finalist in three World Athletics Championships ( 2005 , 2007 , 2009 ). Their main medal she won gains in the hall: she was second in both the European Indoor Championships in 2007 and at the IAAF World Indoor Championships 2008 .

Anomalies in her biological passport detected between August 18, 2009 and February 2013 resulted in a two-year suspension of the sport and the cancellation of her results during that period (including two of her three appearances at the European Athletics Championships and her run at the 2011 World Championships ).

Career

Early career

She was born in Kiev. In her teens, she enjoyed swimming and table tennis before switching to athletics after beating boys in races at school. Her parents agreed to send her to a sports school in the capital in 1994. In her first international competition, she won the 400 meters at the European Youth Olympic Festival in 1997 . Further medals followed at the 1999 World Youth Championships in athletics, where she finished second behind Georgie Clarke over 800 meters and helped Ukraine achieve a bronze medal in the sprint relay . Then she began to specialize in middle distance .

In 2000 she ran a personal best of 2: 04.74 minutes over the 800 m and took sixth place in this discipline at the World Junior Championships in 2000 . In 2001 she was admitted to the Kiev National University of Sports - the best sports university in the country. She was a bronze medalist at the 2001 European Junior Athletics Championships , but later discovered that she had not approached the competition professionally as she had been on a long shopping trip just hours before the final. She improved her best time in 2002 to 2: 02.41 minutes. In 2003 she took part in international competitions twice: in 2003 she ran in the preliminary runs at the IAAF World Indoor Championships and in 2003 at the U23 European Championships in seventh place.

First senior competitions

She won her first national team medal in 2004 at the European Indoor Cup, where she ran for bronze with a personal best of 2: 01.14 minutes. She won the Ukrainian indoor title, but failed at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 2004 due to an injury to her sacral nerves in the final. After finishing seventh at the 2004 European Championships , she won her first national title outdoors, dipping under two minutes for the first time and finishing in 1: 59.62 minutes. In the semifinals of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , she set a personal best of 1: 59.48 minutes, but that wasn't enough to make it into the final.

She failed in 2005 when her coach at FC Khimki started to soar. With little money or time with her trainer, she was the fastest this year with 2: 01.78 minutes. Nevertheless, she won a second national indoor title and was a semi-finalist at the 2005 European Indoor Championships and the 2005 World Championships . The following year her coach moved to FC Krasnodar and she traveled with him again. This time her training arrangements were more productive. In the indoor season she won the Sparkassen Cup meeting and was a semi-finalist at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships . Her opener in 1: 57.34 minutes was her fastest of the year. She was one of the favorites at the 2006 European Cup , but fell in the race and was hospitalized with superficial injuries . At the European Athletics Championships in 2006 , she ran well, but was conservative in her tactics due to her previous fall: Since she decided not to run in the narrowest lane, she narrowly missed a medal in the end. Later investigations revealed that she had covered 817 m during the race. Her season ended with a sixth place at the 2006 IAAF World Athletics Finals .

European and world successes

Petljuk started 2007 in good shape, won the Sparkassen-Cup-Meeting with an indoor time of 1: 58.67 minutes and set a new record at the PSD-Bank-Meeting. She won the third Ukrainian indoor title in a row and secured the silver medal at the European Indoor Championships in 2007 , where she was second behind Oxana Sbroschek . She made it to the semi-finals of the 2007 World Athletics Championships , but persistent thigh pain hampered her season. After the end of the athletics season, doctors diagnosed her with a herniated disc from her fall in 2006.

She successfully returned after her rehabilitation in early 2008, defeated Maria de Lurdes Mutola at the IAAF Indoor World Championships in 2008 and won the silver medal behind Tamsyn Lewis in the 800 m final . That year she was national champion both indoors and outdoors and represented Ukraine at the 2008 Summer Olympics . She was an 800 m semi-finalist and also ran in the heats with the Ukrainian 4 × 400 m relay . She did not attend the remaining IAAF Golden League meetings as she was recalled to Kiev to be given an apartment in recognition of her accomplishments. However, this never happened, and their season ended prematurely. She later commented on the affair:

"They said that my participation was obligatory, because the mayor of Kiev had to give me keys for a new apartment in the Ukrainian capital. But finally I got just a commendation for my high results in athletics. I felt defrauded."

At the European Indoor Championships in 2009 she finished sixth, but was again only a semi-finalist at the 2009 Outdoor World Championships . She was represented again in the Ukrainian relay, but did not make it to the final there either. She won national titles over 800m and 1500m outdoors. At the world championships she gave a blood sample during her doping control , which should ultimately lead to the disqualification of all of her results from August 18, 2009 to February 15, 2013: performances at her national championships and results of the 2011 European Indoor Championships , the 2011 World Championships and of the European Championships 2012 .

Doping ban

In early 2013, the Ukrainian Athletics Federation suspended Petlyuk for two years due to anomalies in her biological passport . It was closed to competitions from February 2013 to February 2015.

Personal

In 2008, she earned a master's degree in sports psychology from the National University of Sports in Kiev.

Personal best

open air

• 800 meters - 1: 57.34 min (2006)
• 1000 meters - 2: 41.69 min (2007)
• 1500 meters - 4: 06.51 min (2009)

Hall

• 800 meters - 1: 58.67 min (2007)
• 1000 meters - 2: 34.76 min (2007)
• 1500 meters - 4: 10.91 min (2008)

successes

Competed for Ukraine
1999	Youth World Championships	Bydgoszcz , Poland	2.	800 m	2: 06.97 min
2000	Junior World Championships	Santiago , Chile	6th	800 m	2: 07.26 min
			6th	4 × 400 m relay	3: 37.83 min
2001	Junior European Championships	Grosseto , Italy	3.	800 m	2: 04.15 min
2003	U23 European Championships	Bydgoszcz , Poland	7th	800 m	2: 06.57 min
			4th	4 × 400 m relay	3: 33.63 min
2006	European championships	Gothenburg , Sweden	4th	800m	1: 58.65 min
2006	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart , Germany	6th	800 m	2: 00.67 min
2007	European Indoor Championships	Birmingham , UK	2.	800 m	1: 59.84 min
2008	Indoor world championships	Valencia , Spain	2.	800 m	2: 02.66 min
2011	European Indoor Championships	Paris , France	DQ	800 m
	World championships	Daegu , South Korea	DQ	800 m
2012	European championships	Helsinki , Finland	DQ	800 m

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Athens 2004 Olympic shot put gold medallist given retrospective two-year doping ban. In: insidethegames.biz. April 5, 2013, accessed July 15, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Athletes currently suspended from all competitions in athletics following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation as at: 01/28/15 . IAAF. Archived from the original on February 3, 2015. Retrieved on February 9, 2015.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Tetiana Petlyuk . IAAF.
4. ↑ European Youth Olympic Festival 1997. August 31, 2013, accessed on July 17, 2020 (English). 
5. ↑ World Youth Championships 1999 Please enter either wayback - or webciteID - or archive-is - or archiv-url parameters . WJAH.
6. ↑ World Junior Championships 2000 . WJAH.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Tetiana Petlyuk . Tilastopaja.
8. ^ Mackay, Duncan (April 5, 2013). Athens 2004 Olympic shot put gold medalist given retrospective two-year doping ban . Inside the Games.