Olga Kotlyarova
Olga Ivanovna Kotlyarova (Russian Ольга Ивановна Котлярова, English transcription Olga Kotlyarova, . Born April 12, 1976 in Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg ) is a Russian sprinter and middle distance runner.
Olga Kotlyarova belongs since 1996 to the Russian 4 x 400 - meter relay, but also won international medals alone in the 400 - meter dash and the 800 -meter run. At a height of 1.80 m her competition weight is 65 kg.
Career to 2001
At the Junior European Championships 1995 Olga Kotlyarova won the 400m gold and silver with the Russian junior season. Your first medal in the adult area, they won at the European Indoor Championships in Stockholm in 1996 with silver behind the German Grit Breuer and one hundredth of a second ahead of her compatriot Tatjana Tschebykina. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta she left about 400 meters from the quarter-finals. The Russian squadron was in the final five.
1997 at the World Indoor Championships in Paris won the Russian season with a new indoor world record in front of the seasons from the United States and Germany. In the summer Kotlyarova difference at the World Championships in Athens in 51.03 seconds in the semi-finals. With the season they finished fourth behind the squadrons from Germany, the USA and Jamaica.
A new personal best made Olga Kotlyarova on at the European Championships in 1998 in Budapest. In 50.38 seconds but it was still only third behind Grit Breuer in 49.93 seconds behind the Czech and Helena Fuchsová in 50.21 seconds. The Russian squadron was number 2 behind the German squadron, in the Breuer anchor leg Kotlyarova had no chance.
Also in Maebashi at the World Indoor Championships in 1999 won the Russian season with a new indoor world record, behind the seasons of Australia and the United States ran into the medals. In the outdoor world championships in Seville Kotlyarova finished eighth in 50.72 seconds. The squadron won 0.11 seconds ahead of the Americans inside the world title.
At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney Kotlyarova was eighth in 51.04 seconds again. With the season they won the bronze medal behind the squadrons from the U.S. and Jamaica.
At the 2001 World Indoor Championships in Lisbon, she ran 51.56 seconds over 400 meters and finished second behind the Jamaican Sandie Richards in 51.04 seconds and before their teammate Olesja Sykina 51.71 seconds. With the Russian squadron Kotlyarova won for the third consecutive gold, this time in front of the squadrons from Jamaica and Germany.
Then Olga Kotlyarova took a break from competition. 2002 was born their daughter Tatyana.
Career from 2004
Her comeback She celebrated at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest in 2004. For the fourth time she has been with the squadron World Indoor Champion for the third time that season, setting a new world record was there. The superiority of the season was considerably through six seconds ahead of the runner-up season from Belarus.
Although over 400 meters personal best was 2004, Olga Kotlyarova the 800 -meter run now turned to reinforced. At the World Indoor Championships in 2006 she reached the finals for the first time and was in a Fifth 2:01,56 seconds. At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006, the three Russian representatives were due to their previously experienced times as favorites, if a fast race should develop. Svetlana Cherkasova made from the start for a fast pace, the other two, Svetlana Kljuka and Kotlyarova, benefited from it and sprinted to the end to gold and silver. Due to their higher basic speed Olga Kotlyarova won the European title for the first time in a major championship a single item.
At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka Kotlyarova tried to go along the pace of the Kenyan Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei. On the home straight it was überspurtet of Hasna Benhassi and Mayte Martínez. In 1:58,22 minutes Kotlyarova took fourth place.
International Medals
Bests
- 200 meters: 23.35 seconds (1998)
- 400 meters: 49.77 seconds (2004)
- 800 meters: 1:57,24 minutes ( 2006)