Lyudmila Galkina

Lyudmila Ivanovna Galkina (Russian Людмила Ивановна Галкина, English transcription Lyudmila Galkina, . Born January 20, 1972 in Saratov, Russia) is a former Russian athlete who still got a job as a junior for the Soviet Union. At a height of 1.72 m her competition weight was 59 kg.

Lyudmila Galkina was third in the 1989 European Junior Championships in the long jump and 1991, she was at the Junior European Championships runner-up in the long jump and won the triple jump. In her career as an adult, she then approached almost exclusively in the long jump.

Your first front placement in an international competition was the fifth place with 6.74 m at the World Championships in Stuttgart in 1993, the Dane Nielsen Renata won bronze with 6,76 m. At the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona in 1995 Galkina won with a new personal best of 6.95 m. After she had 1994, the qualification did not survive at the European Championships, he did not succeed even at the 1995 World Championships and the Olympic Games in 1996.

Lyudmila Galkina survived once again, the qualification was only at the 1997 World Championships in Athens. In the fourth trial of the finale with her ​​then 7.05 m succeeded the best jump of her career and she won in front of the Greek Niki Xanthou ( 6.94 m) and the Italian Fiona May ( 6.91 m). On the fourth and fifth were with Heike Drechsler and Jackie Joyner-Kersee, the two most significant long jumper indoor athletics history.

The next year at the European Championships 1998 in Budapest Galkina was wind -aided 7.06 m third behind Heike Drechsler ( gold) and Fiona May ( silver). At the 1999 World Championships in Seville Lyudmila Galkina finished fourth with 6.82 m with a centimeter behind Marion Jones of the United States.

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney Galkina finished ninth with a wind- aided 6.56 m, it was her best result at the Olympics. At the World Indoor Championships 2001, she was with 6.71 m sixth. After an eighth place with 6.70 m at the 2001 World Championships she succeeded at the European Indoor Championships in 2002 once again winning the bronze medal with 6.68 meters.

Bests

• Long Jump: 7.05 m ( 1997)
• Triple Jump: 13,67 m ( 1991), in the hall, she jumped 13.76 m in 2004