Tatyana Shikolenko
Tatyana Ivanovna Schikolenko (Russian Татьяна Ивановна Шиколенко, English transcription Tatyana Shikolenko, also white russian Таццяна Шыкаленка - Tazzjana Schykalenka - Tatsiana Shykalenka, . Born May 10, 1968 in Krasnodar ) is a former javelin thrower, which until 1991 for the Soviet Union in 1992 for the Community Independent States, from 1993 to 1995 for Belarus and then took for Russia.
As the Fifth European Junior Championships in 1985 and the Fourth World Junior Championships 1986, she showed early on that she was at least similarly talented as her four older sister Natallja Schykalenka. At the Goodwill Games in 1990 Tatjana finished second behind her sister. In 1991, she won at the Universiade.
At the World Championships in Stuttgart in 1993 Schikolenko both sisters competed for Belarus. Behind Trine Hattestad (Norway) and Karen Forkel ( Germany ) was Schikolenko with 65.64 meters 65.18 meters with a third party before Tatjana.
1997 Tatjana Schikolenko was now starting for Russia, with 63.78 meters eighth. The first medal she won at the European Championships in 1998, when she was with 66.92 meters second behind the German Tanja Damaske. Your best performance with the old javelin of 67.34 meters she put also in 1998.
With the new spear from 1999, she got along well from the start. At the World Championships 1999, she was charged with 66.37 meters second behind Mirela Tzelili (Greece). 2000 she managed the best cast with the new spear, as she threw 67.20 meters with Russian record. However, it was. During the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney only seventh with 62.91 meters At the 2001 World Championships she failed in ninth place in the preliminaries with 60.91 meters she missed the final battle of the last eight to ten inches.
The following year was Tatyana Schikolenko with 63.24 meters Fourth of the European Championships 2002. At the World Championships in 2003, she succeeded with 63.28 meters to win for the second time after 1999 silver, again behind Mirela Maniani - Tzelili.
At a height of 1.77 m her competition weight was 74 kg. From 1997 to 2001 and in 2003 she won the Russian championship in the javelin.