Yelena Soboleva

Yelena Vladimirovna Sobolewa (Russian: Елена Владимировна Соболева, English transcription Yelena Soboleva; .; Born October 3, 1982 in Bryansk ) is a Russian middle distance runner.

Career

According to a sixth place finish at the U23 European Championships in 2003 Sobolewa succeeded in 2005, the breakthrough in the world-class. At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005, the four Russians Tatiana Tomaschowa, Yulia Tschischenko, Olga Egorova and Sobolewa dominated the race. Sobolewa performed the leadership until the last lap, then sprinted Tschischenko and Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain to the top. While Tomaschowa both outdated, Tschischenko Jamal urged by the carrier. At the finish Tomaschowa, Tschischenko and Jegorowa were forward. One second behind Jegorowa sprinted the Frenchwoman Bouchra Ghezielle and Sobolewa with Jamal for the places and came within four hundredths of a second to the finish. After a protest by the team lead from Bahrain Tschischenko was disqualified for obstruction of Jamal. Ghezielle received the bronze medal and Sobolewa was now fourth in 4:02,48 minutes and 0.01 seconds ahead of Jamal 5th place

In February 2006 Sobolewa won in Moscow at the Russian Championships before Tschischenko. With her it made ​​indoor world record of 3:58,28 min Sobolewa was favorite for the World Indoor Championships in Moscow, which was to take place a month later. At the World Championships but won Tschischenko, Sobolewa was in 4:05,21 minutes ago Second Jamal. In June Sobolewa also won the Russian Championship outdoors in Tula before Valentina and Olga Egorova Pantelejewa. Beginning of July, when Sobolewa Meeting Gaz de France as second behind Tschischenko with 3:56,43 min their personal best. For the European Championships in Gothenburg, the Russian Federation nominated the two world champions Tomaschowa and Tschischenko and the Russian champion Sobolewa. In the final Sobolewa made ​​pace for her teammates and after a very fast race won Tomaschowa before Tschischenko. Sobolewa was in 4:00,36 minutes behind the Fourth Bulgarian Daniela Yordanova, who was still overtaken on the home straight at her.

Doping affair

In 2007, Sobolewa to the annual global leaderboard with 3:57,30 min, which it had gone down in late June in Moscow. When quickest meeting of the year on 2 July in Athens Sobolewa won in 3:58,30 minutes before Jamal. At the World Championships in Osaka again a fairly fast race was run, however, Jamal was at no stage of the finale to a battle with the Russians, but instead sprinted down the stretch past the outside. Jamal finally won in 3:58,75 minutes before Sobolewa in 3:58,99 min. Also in the IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart Jamal won ahead Sobolewa, as the world best years, thus losing the two most prestigious races of the year against Jamal.

On 10 February 2008 she improved at the Russian Indoor Championships her 1500m world record 3:58,05 min, and at the World Indoor Championships in Lisbon, she won the title with another world record ( 3:57,71 min).

On July 18, she ran with 1:54,85 ​​minutes, the fastest time for a woman over 800 meters in nine years.

A little later, a week before the start of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, she was provisionally suspended by the IAAF for violating the Anti -Doping Rules. You and six other Russian athletes has been demonstrated on the basis of DNA analysis to have urine of other people delivered in a doping test fraudulently. The manipulated samples came from the spring of 2007. Subsequently, all results have been canceled since April 26, 2007, making her the medals were stripped of the 2007 World Championships and World Indoor Championships in 2008, and their two indoor world records from this period. 2008, the Russian Federation announced that the start of the mature two -year ban would be set at April 2007, the Act Sobolewa could start at the World Athletics Championships in 2009. The IAAF complained against it before the International Court of Sport and got in July 2009 right, so that the now fixed to two years and nine months lock period of Ineligibility from July 2008 was valid until April 2011.

Jelena Sobolewa is 1.76 m and weighs 66 kg. They will start for Luch Moscow.

Bests

  • 800 m: 1:57,28 min 24 June, 2006, Zhukovsky Hall: 1:58,53 min, February 4, 2006, Moscow
  • Hall: 2:32,40 min, 25 January 2006 Moscow
  • Hall: 3:58,28 min 18 February, 2006, Moscow
Transcription (linguistics) 2005 World Championships in Athletics Tatyana Tomashova 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships Tula, Russia 2006 European Athletics Championships 2007 World Championships in Athletics 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships 2009 World Championships in Athletics Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast Middle-distance running#1000 m Saint-Denis 3000 metres
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