Zalina Petrivskaia

Zalina Petrivskaia
nation	Moldova
birthday	5th February 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Ordzhonikidze ,  Soviet Union
size	170 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	74.21 m
Trainer	Soslan Marghiev
National squad	since 2011
status	active
Medal table
U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
U23 European Championships gold Kaunas 2009 67.67 m
last change: May 2, 2017

Zalina Petrivskaia , b. Marghieva ( Russian Зали́на Сосла́новна Марги́ева Salina Soslanowna Margijewa ; born February 5, 1988 in Ordzhonikidze , North Ossetian ASSR , USSR ) is a Moldovan hammer thrower .

Athletic career

As a junior, Marghieva was fifth at the World Youth Championships , fourth at the World Junior Athletics Championships in 2006 , and fifth at the European Youth Championships. She later took part in the 2008 Olympic Games , but did not reach the final there. In 2009 she outbid her older sister Marina Marghieva on January 31 in Chișinău with 71.56 m , winning the gold medal at the U23 European Championships. At the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin , she was eliminated in qualification. Four years later, in September 2013, she was banned by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) because of a positive doping test from the World Cup . All results since the World Championships in Berlin, including her medal wins at the Universiaden in 2011 and 2013, have been retrospectively canceled.

After her two-year ban, Petrivskaia reached the final of the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , where she finished eighth. She finished fifth at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam , as well as at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

Zalina Marghieva is trained by her father Soslan Marghiev (* 1962), who used to be a hammer thrower. Her mother Alexandra (* 1959), b. Mititelu was 1984 Soviet champion in shot put and holds the world record in their age group.

Web links

• Zalina Petrivskaia in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Povestea unei dinastii de atleți care duc faima Moldovei în lume - Familia Marghiev face aur cu ciocanul (November 26, 2011, Romanian, accessed August 8, 2012)
• Интервью с Залиной и Мариной Маргиевыми (Interview, Russian, accessed August 8, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF: 71.56 m nationally Hammer Throw record from zalina marghieva ( Memento of 7 February 2009 at the Internet Archive ). February 3, 2009
2. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Flash-News from September 25, 2013 - Two new doping cases published (accessed on September 30, 2013)