Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko

Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko

Knyazyeva-Minenko at the 2013 World Championships
Personal information
Born (1989-09-25) 25 September 1989
Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Residence Israel
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)
Weight 64 kg (141 lb)
Spouse(s) Anatoly Minenko
Sport
Country  Ukraine (2005–13)
 Israel (2013–present)
Sport Track and Field
Event(s) Triple jump, Long jump
Club Maccabi Tel Aviv
Coached by Anatoliy Holubtsov, Yuriy Horbachenko, Alex Merman[1]
Achievements and titles
National finals First Place and National Record Holder, Israel (triple jump and long jump)
Olympic finals Triple Jump, 2012, London
Personal best(s)
  • triple jump – 14.78 m (2015)
  • triple jump indoor – 14.49 m (2015)
  • long jump – 6.52 m (2014)
  • long jump indoor – 6.26 m (2012)[2][3]
Medal record
Representing Israel Israel
World Championships
2015 Beijing Triple jump
European Championships
2016 Amsterdam Triple jump
European Indoor Championships
2015 Praha Triple jump
European Games
2015 Baku Mixed Team

Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko (also spelled as "Knyazheva", "Knyazeva", and "Kniazeva"; Ukrainian: Ганна Князєва-Міненко, Hebrew: חנה קנייזבה-מיננקו‎‎; born 25 September 1989) is a former Ukrainian and a current Israeli triple jumper and long jumper.

She established a personal best in August 2015 of 14.78 meters (m) in the triple jump while winning the silver medal at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics. She competed for her native Ukraine at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women’s triple jump event, coming in fourth with a jump of 14.56 m.[4]

She moved to Israel and became an Israeli citizen in early 2013, and has represented Israel since then.[3] At the 77th Israeli Athletics Championships in early July 2013, Knyazyeva-Minenko established a new Israeli record in winning the women's triple jump with a distance of 14.50 m. At the Sainsbury's Anniversary Games Diamond League competition in London later that month, she won a bronze medal with a distance of 14.29 m in the triple jump. In September 2013 at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Challenge in Zagreb, Croatia, she jumped 14.38 m and won a silver medal in the triple jump.

At the 78th Israel national championships in 2014, Knyazyeva-Minenko won a gold medal in the long jump while setting a new Israeli record and personal best with a distance of 6.52 m. She won a bronze medal in the triple jump at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague in March 2015, becoming the first Israeli woman to win a track and field medal at a major European championship. She jumped a distance of 14.49 m, setting a new Israeli national indoor record. Competing for Israel at the 2015 European Games in June 2015, she won the triple jump competition that formed part of the Athletics event at the 2015 European Games, though no individual medal was awarded to her as the competition was a team event only; she also won a bronze medal for the team event. Representing Israel at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, in August 2015, she won the silver medal in the triple jump, setting a new Israeli record of 14.78 meters. Knyazyeva-Minenko represented Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the triple jump, coming in fifth.

Early and personal life

Anna Knyazyeva was born in Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi in the Kyiv Region, Ukraine to a Christian family.[4][5] She began training as an athlete when she was eight years old.[6]

She married Israeli former decathlon champion Anatoly Minenko, whom she had met in a training camp, in November 2012.[7][8][9][6][10] They live in Israel.[8][9][11][6]

Athletic career

For Ukraine

Knyazyeva won the silver medal in the triple jump at the 2007 European Athletics Junior Championships.[12] On 10 July 2008, she came in 4th in the triple jump at the 12th IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics in Bydgoszcz, Poland, with a distance of 13.61 m.[13] She established a personal best in June 2012 of 14.71 m in the triple jump, 79 centimeters short of the world record, when she was 22 years old.[11][6]

Knyazyeva placed fourth for Ukraine in the women’s triple jump event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, with a best jump of 14.56 meters.[14][4][8] She trailed Olga Rypakova of Kazakhstan, Caterine Ibargüen of Colombia, and Olha Saladukha of Ukraine.[15]

For Israel

Knyazyeva-Minenko became an Israeli citizen on 12 May 2013.[16][6][10] Her coach is Israeli Alex Merman, who formerly coached Israeli high jumper Konstantin Matusevich, and her club is Maccabi Tel Aviv.[1][11][6][17]

At the 77th Israeli Athletics Championships in early July 2013, she established a new Israeli record in winning the women’s triple jump with a distance of 14.50 m.[18] Knyazyeva-Minenko won a silver medal at the 2013 IAAF Diamond League competition in Paris, jumping 14.58 m in the triple jump.[19] At the Sainsbury's Anniversary Games Diamond League competition in London on 26 July 2013, she won a bronze medal in the triple jump with a distance of 14.29 m, behind Jamaican Kimberly Williams and Russian Ekaterina Koneva.[20]

Knyazyeva-Minenko at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Athletics

At the 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on 15 August 2013, at age 23 in her first major event representing Israel, Knyazyeva-Minenko came in 6th in the triple jump, with a distance of 14.33 m, after posting a 14.46 m and coming in third in the qualifying round.[21][22][11][23] She was the first Israeli to reach a World Championships final since Israeli Alex Averbukh in the pole vault, in 2007.[11] She observed: "I'm still young, and I’ve got many more years to represent [Israel] and bring it honor."[23]

On 3 September 2013 at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Challenge in Zagreb, Croatia, she jumped 14.38 m in the triple jump and won a silver medal, behind winner Olha Saladuha of Ukraine.[24] In 2013, she held a women's triple jump ranking of No. 4 in the Diamond League series.[8]

In 2014 Knyazyeva-Minenko had an operation to repair an injured Achilles tendon, and missed competing for most of the year as a result.[8][16][6] However, at the 78th Israel national championships at Hadar Yosef Stadium in Tel Aviv in 2014, she won a gold medal in the long jump while setting a new Israeli record with a distance of 6.52 m.[25] The distance was a new personal best for the event, and eclipsed by six centimeters Sigal Gonen’s previous Israeli record, which had stood for 28 years since 1986.[25]

Knyazyeva-Minenko won a bronze medal at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague in March 2015, competing for Israel in the triple jump.[8] She jumped a distance of 14.49 meters (47.5 feet), setting a new Israeli national indoor record for the second day in a row, improving on her prior day's national record jump in the qualifiers by nine centimeters.[1][16] In winning the medal, she became the first Israeli woman to win a track and field medal at a major European championship, and became the first Israeli to win a medal at the European Indoor Championships since Alex Averbukh won a gold medal in the pole vault at the 2000 European Indoor Championships.[8][1][9] She noted: "My best jump (14.49 meters) would have won me the gold medal at the last World Championship."[8] Russia's Ekaterina Koneva won the gold medal, and Bulgaria's Gabriela Petrova won the silver medal.[9]

At the IAAF Diamond League Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway, on 11 June 2015 she came in fifth in the triple jump, at 14.22 m.[26] Competing for Israel at the 2015 European Games on 21 June 2015, she won the triple jump portion of the Team Athletics event with a distance of 14.41 m; she also won a bronze medal for the team event.[27][28]

She represented Israel at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, in August 2015.[29][16] She won the silver medal in the triple jump, setting a new Israeli record of 14.78 meters.[30]

Knyazyeva-Minenko represented Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the triple jump, at the age of 26.[31][32] She jumped 14.68 m in the final, for fifth place, six centimeters behind the bronze medalist.[33][34] Her fifth-place finish matched the best-ever finish for an Israeli in an Olympic athletics competition, established first by high jumper Konstantin Matusevich, at the 2000 Olympics.[35]

Competition record

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Ukraine
2007 European Junior Championships Hengelo, Netherlands 2nd Triple jump 13.85 m
2008 World Junior Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 4th Triple jump 13.61 m (wind: -0.2 m/s)
2011 European U23 Championships Ostrava, Czech Republic 20th (q) Long jump 5.85 m (wind: -0.1 m/s)
5th Triple jump 13.61 m (wind: +1.1 m/s)
Universiade Shenzhen, China 20th (q) Long jump 5.94 m
4th Triple jump 14.15 m
2012 World Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 21st (q) Triple jump 13.65 m
Olympic Games London, England 4th Triple jump 14.56 m
Representing  Israel
2013 London Grand Prix London, England 3rd Triple jump 14.29 m
World Championships Moscow, Russia 6th Triple jump 14.33 m
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic 3rd Triple jump 14.49 m
European Games Baku, Azerbaijan 1st Triple jump 14.41 m
World Championships Beijing, China 2nd Triple jump 14.78 m
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 2nd Triple jump 14.51 m
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 5th Triple jump 14.68 m

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Israeli jumper wins bronze medal at European Indoor Championships". JNS.org. 9 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Athlete Profile; Bio; Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko, IAAF
  3. 1 2 "Hanna Knyazheva-Minenko". IAAF Diamond League.
  4. 1 2 3 "Medal Count – Olympic Results & Medalists – IOC". london2012.com.
  5. ↑ "Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko". Eurosport.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Uri Talshir and Taly Krupkin (5 March 2015). "This female triple jumper may be the best Israel's ever had; Fourth in the 2012 Olympiad, triple jumper Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko, has gone from Ukraine to Israel with a hop, skip and jump.". Haaretz.
  7. ↑ "האהבה מנצחת: סיפורה של חנה קנייזבה-מיננקו" (in Hebrew). ONE.co.il. June 3, 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Oren Aharoni (10 March 2015). "Medal-winning athlete gets hero's welcome upon return to Israel; Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko, who won bronze in triple jump at European championships, says it feels natural to represent Israel.". ynet.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Simon Griver (9 March 2015). "Euro bronze for Knyazyeva-Minenko". The Jewish Chronicle.
  10. 1 2 Alfons Juck, Kevin Mangan (13 June 2013). "EME News June 13th". American Track & Field.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 Allon Sinai (13 August 2013). "Israeli star makes final of triple jump World Championships in Moscow; Knyazyeva-Minenko becomes the first Israeli since pole-vaulter Alex Averbukh in 2007 to reach a World Championships final.". The Jerusalem Post.
  12. ↑ "Israel's Hanna Knyazyeva leaps to finals in Moscow". i24news. August 14, 2013.
  13. ↑ "Athlete profile; Honours; for Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko". iaaf.org.
  14. ↑ Hanna Knyazyeva. London 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  15. ↑ "Athletics at the 2012 London Summer Games: Women's Triple Jump". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
  16. 1 2 3 4 Allon Sinai (9 March 2015). "Israeli Knyazyeva-Minenko wins historic medal in Euro indoors; 25-year-old's next target will be the World Championships in Beijing, China in August.". The Jerusalem Post.
  17. ↑ "Baku 2015 1St European Games – Athletes – KNYAZYEVA MINENKO Hanna". Baku 2015.
  18. ↑ Allon Sinai (4 July 2013). "Lenskiy, Malka win 100-meter dash". The Jerusalem Post.
  19. ↑ "Bolt fires to world-leading 19.73 at Paris Diamond League". SportingAlert.com. 6 July 2013.
  20. ↑ André Lowe (27 July 2013). "King Bolt still reigns". Jamaica Gleaner.
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  22. ↑ Deutsche Leichtathletik Marketing GmbH (2013). "DLV-Jahrbuch 2013". ISBN 3732255018.
  23. 1 2 Allon Sinai. "Knyazyeva-Minenko misses medal in Moscow; Israeli ends triple jump final in sixth position; Gordon, Hejnova take superb 400m hurdles golds.". The Jerusalem Post.
  24. ↑ "Bailey-Cole second in IAAF World Challenge 100m". Jamaica Observer. 3 September 2013.
  25. 1 2 Allon Sinai (18 July 2014). "Women's long jump record broken after 28 years; Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko set a new Israeli record in the long jump.". The Jerusalem Post.
  26. ↑ "Athletics-Diamond League Meeting Oslo men/women results". Daily Mail. 11 June 2015.
  27. ↑ "Baku 2015 European Games – Video – Hanna Knyazyeva Minenko With The Winning Triple Jump Of 14.41". Baku 2015. 21 June 2015.
  28. ↑ "Baku 2015 1St European Games – Athletes – KNYAZYEVA MINENKO Hanna". Baku 2015.
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  30. ↑
  31. ↑ "חנה קנייזבה-מיננקו הבטיחה את מקומה במשחקים האולימפיים בריו". וואלה! ספורט (in Hebrew). 29 May 2015.
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