Ineta Radēviča

Ineta Radevica (born 13 July 1981 in Krāslava ) is a former Latvian athlete who took up mainly in the long jump. She was European Champion in 2010.

Life

At the Junior World Championships in 2000 in Santiago de Chile Radevica reach the finals in the long jump competition, finishing in seventh place. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 she went to both the long jump and the triple jump, but failed each in qualifying. In 2005 she finished fifth with a width of 6.48 m at the European Indoor Championships in Madrid. In Tallinn they improved on 19 June of the same year their personal best to 6.80 m and thus qualified for the World Championships in Helsinki, where they were beaten again retired with a disappointing width of 6.18 m in the preliminaries. At the World Indoor Championships in Moscow in 2006, it reached fifth place in the long jump finals her until then best international result. At the European Indoor Championships in 2007 in Birmingham, she was eighth at the World Indoor Championships 2008 in Valencia sixth.

For the Summer Olympic Games in 2008 she was nominated, but maintained in the short term to participate because she had become pregnant. After their return to the competition scene in 2010, it achieved its greatest success by winning the gold medal at the European Championships in Barcelona. There she won the long jump with Latvian record with 6.92 m in front of the Portuguese Naide Gomes, who scored the same width.

At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, they won with a width of 6.76 m and a bronze medal jumped only an inch less wide than the runner-up Olga Kucherenko. 2012 came Radevica at the European Championships in sixth place. Shortly thereafter, she was at the Olympics in London Fourth, only one centimeter behind the American Janay DeLoach. At the end of the year after they had been elected for the third time Latvian sportswoman of the year, they stepped back.

Ineta Radevica is 1,78 m tall and weighed about 56 kg competition times. From her first husband, the middle-distance runner Viktor Lācis, she was divorced in 2005. His second wife is married to the Russian hockey players Pyotr Stschastliwy.

Personal best

  • Long Jump: 6.92 m 28 July, 2010, Barcelona Hall: 6,67 m, 2 March 2007 Birmingham
  • Hall: 13.89 m 27 January, 2010, Moscow
2010 European Athletics Championships July 13 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics 2005 European Athletics Indoor Championships 2005 World Championships in Athletics 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships Janay DeLoach Soukup Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs Jean Pickering Tatyana Kotova
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