Tatyana Lysenko

Lysenko at the 2011 World Championships

Tatjana Viktorovna Lysenko (Russian Татьяна Викторовна Лысенко, English transcription Tatyana Lysenko, . Born September 17, 1983 in Bataisk ) is a Russian hammer thrower.

Lysenko 's breakthrough to the international world leaders in the summer of 2005. On 15 July 2005, she improved in Moscow the six -year-old world record of the Romanian Mihaela Melinte by 99 centimeters to 77.06 m. One and a half months later, she won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Helsinki.

August 15, 2006 Tatyana Lysenko presented in Tallinn with 77,80 m the then world record. At the European Championships in Gothenburg she won shortly thereafter with the length of 76.67 m the gold medal. On May 26, 2007, they increased at a national sports festival in Sochi their previous best performance by 81 centimeters to the width of 78.61 m. This distance, which was originally considered as a world record, but was canceled as part of their doping suspension.

May 9, 2007, she was had been tested positive for the aromatase inhibitor 6- alpha -methyl- androstenedione at a doping control. After abandoning the opening of the B sample was a two -year ban for doping until 14 July 2009 and the withdrawal of world record distance achieved last.

Shortly after the expiration of the lock, it achieved a width of 76.41 m and thus qualified for the world championships in Berlin, when she came to sixth place with 72.22 m. At the World Athletics Championships in 2011, she threw 77.13 meters wide and won the gold medal. At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, she won the gold medal with a jump of 78.18 meters.