Yuliya Sotnikova
Yulia Vladimirovna Sotnikowa (Russian Юлия Владимировна Сотникова, English transcription Yuliya Vladimirovna Sotnikova, . Born November 18, 1970 in Volgograd) is a former Russian sprinter who specialized in the 400 -meter run.
Your best results they achieved with the Russian 4 x 400 - meter relay. She won the relay at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in 1995 and the silver medal at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Lisbon in 2001 the gold medal.
Your most important success was winning the bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. In the season they reached together with Svetlana Goncharenko, Olga and Irina Kotlyarova Priwalowa the target in 3:23,46 minutes behind the teams in the United States and Jamaica. As the victorious American squadron was subsequently later disqualified for doping her runner Marion Jones, there is a possibility that the Russian team still moving up one rank in the standings.
Julija Sotnikowa had a competition weight of 60 kg at a height of 1.70 m.