Yelena Afanasyeva
Yelena Alexandrovna Afanassjewa (Russian: Елена Александровна Афанасьева, English transcription Yelena Afanasyeva, born Власова - Wlassowa - Vlasova, . Born March 1, 1967 in Kulebaki ) is a former Russian middle distance runner who still began her career in the Soviet Union and 1998 European champion was.
In 1988, she ran - starting under her birth name - a time of 1:57,77 minutes, after marriage and break from competition in 1991, she returned back to the runway. Their first international medal she won in 1992, when she started at the European Indoor Championships in Genoa for the CIS. In 2:00,69 minutes she won bronze behind the Romanian Ella Kovacs and her teammate Inna Jewsejewa. A year later at the World Indoor Championships in Toronto, they finished fourth in 2:01,87 minutes. Outdoors at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart in 1993 she left in the flow.
On February 4, 1994, in Moscow, the Russian 4x800 - meter relay in the lineup Olga Kuznetsova, Jelena Afanasjewa, Jelena Saizewa and Yekaterina Podkopajewa in 8:18,71 minutes an indoor world record, which was undercut in 2007. At the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona in 1995 Afanassjewa won in 1:59,79 minutes behind Maria de Lurdes Mutola silver from Mozambique. In the outdoor season in 1995, she won her first Russian championship, but retired at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg in the semifinals. At the Olympic Games in 1996 they reached the final, where she equaled her eight -year-old best performance in the semifinals. In the final, she ran 1:59,57 seconds and finished fifth.
The following year, Afanassjewa reached for the first time a World Cup Final and won at the 1997 World Championships in Athens, the silver medal in 1:57,56 minutes behind Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB ). In the end, they had .03 seconds ahead of Maria de Lurdes Mutola. A week after the World Championships, she presented at the meeting world-class Zurich in 1:56,61 minutes on a new personal best, the race should be their fastest. In 1998, she won her second Russian title. The European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, she was clearly the strongest runner in the field and won in 1:58,50 seconds before the Swede Malin Ewerlöf and Stephanie Graf of Austria. Your last major international appearance had Afanassjewa at the World Indoor Championships in 2001 in Lisbon. In 2:02,17 minutes she was fifth again.
Jelena Afanassjewa is 1,64 m tall and weighed 56 kg in the competition.
Bests
- 800 meters: 1:56,61 minutes ( 1997)
- 1000 meters: 2:34,60 minutes ( 1998)
- 1500 meters: 4:07,8 minutes ( 1988)