Yekaterina Podkopayeva

Yekaterina Ilyinichna Podkopajewa (Russian Екатерина Ильинична Подкопаева, English transcription Yekaterina Podkopayeva, born Порывкина - Porywkina - Poryvkina, . Born June 11, 1952 in Uljanowo, Kaluga oblast ) is a former Russian middle distance runner.

At the World Athletics Championships in 1983, she won, starting for the Soviet Union, silver and bronze over 800 m above 1500 m.

Further international success over 1500 m reach her ​​in the 1990s. In 1992 she won as part of the United team than 1500 m at the European Indoor Championships in Genoa and was about the same distance Eighth at the Olympic Games in Barcelona. In 1993, she won, now antretend for Russia, gold at the World Indoor Championships in Toronto, 1994 gold at the European Indoor Championships in Paris and bronze at the European Championships in Helsinki.

A silver medal at the European Indoor Championships in Stockholm in 1996 followed the victory at the World Indoor Championships in Paris in 1997, where she was the oldest indoor world champion with 44 years previously.

Personal Best

  • 800 m: 1:55,96 min, July 27, 1983, Leningrad Hall: 2:00,70 min, February 18, 1984, Moscow
  • Hall: 2:36,08 min, February 13, 1993 Liévin
  • Hall: 4:05,19 min, March 9, 1997, Paris
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