Tatyana Kotova
Tatyana Vladimirovna Kotova (Russian Татьяна Владимировна Котова, English transcription Tatyana Vladimirovna Kotova, . Born December 11, 1976 in Kokand, Uzbekistan ) is a former Russian long jumper. She was European Champion in 2002 and three times World Indoor champion.
Life
In 1999, she won at the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi gold with 6.68 meters, but resigned at the World Championships in Seville in the qualifier.
At the Olympic Summer Games 2000 in Sydney Kotowa covered with 6.83 m in fourth place. In October 2007, the third-place finisher, the US-American Marion Jones returned her bronze medal at the IOC. The bronze medal was awarded by the IOC in December 2009 Tatyana Kotova.
At the World Indoor Championships in Lisbon in 2001 she won a silver medal with 6.98 meters. On June 23, 2002, she won with a personal best at the European Cup in Annecy and they even came with 7.42 meters the world record very close. Achieved similar results but they never met before. In the same year she won gold at the European Championships in Munich with de 6,85 m.
Even with the next major international events she attended constant podium places: Silver at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, at the World Indoor Championships 2003 in Birmingham (6.84 m), the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint -Denis ( 6.74 m) and the World Indoor Championships in Budapest in 2004 ( 6.93 m), bronze medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens (7.05 m), silver at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki (6.79 m), gold at the world Indoor Championships in Moscow in 2006 (7.00 m) and bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka (6.90 m).
This was Kotowa from 2000 to 2007 in seven of the eight major international events on the podium. At the Olympic Games in 2008 and the European Championships in 2010, they did not reach the final. After they could not qualify for the 2012 Olympics, she stepped back.
2013, it was suspended and a case against them initiated after a subsequently carried out doping test a sample Kotowas was positive from the 2005 World Championships.
Tatyana Kotova is 1,78 m tall and weighed about 57 kg competition times.