Tatyana Lysenko

This article is about the hammer thrower. For the gymnast of the same name, see Tatiana Lysenko.
Tatyana Lysenko

Lysenko in 2011
Personal information
Native name Татьяна Викторовна ԓысенко
Full name Tatyana Viktorovna Lysenko
Born (1983-10-09) October 9, 1983
Bataysk, Soviet Union
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 14 in)[1]
Weight 81 kg (179 lb)[1]
Sport
Country  Russia
Sport Track and field athletics
Event(s) Hammer throw
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 78.80 m (2013)

Tatyana Viktorovna Lysenko (Russian: Татьяна Викторовна Лысенко, born October 9, 1983 in Bataysk) is a Russian hammer thrower. A two-time World Champion, her career has been blighted by repeated doping infractions.

Career

Lysenko's first world record was 77.06 metres, achieved on July 15, 2005 in Moscow, beating the old record of Mihaela Melinte by 0.99 metres.[2] On June 12, 2006 she lost the record to Gulfiya Khanafeyeva, who threw 77.26 metres at the Russian athletics championships in Tula.[3] However, Lysenko threw 77.41 metres on June 24 in Zhukovsky[4] and 77.80 metres in Tallinn, Estonia on August 15.[5] On July 21, 2007 it was reported that she failed a drug test, testing positive for a women's hormone blocker.[6] In 2008 she was found guilty of using 6α-methylandrostendione and received a two-year ban (15.07.07 – 14.07.09) and disqualification of all results from 9 May 2007, including her world record of 78.61 m set on May 26, 2007.[7]

Lysenko returned to competition in July 2009, taking the Russian title with 76.41 m.[8] She won the gold at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup and ranked third in the inaugural IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge at the end of the year, with a combined score of 223.96 metres for her three best throws.[9] In 2011, she won her first world championship in the first world championships where the top three women all went over 75 m.[10] She initially won the hammer throw gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics with a throw of 78.18 m. She won the 2013 World Championships with a world leading throw of 78.80 m.[11]

In May 2016 La Gazzetta dello Sport reported that a retest of Lysenko's samples from the 2012 Summer Olympics had tested positive for doping products, her third failure. If confirmed in the B sample, she stood to lose her Olympic and second World titles and faced a lifetime ban from the sport.[12] In October, she was stripped of her Olympic gold medal.[13]

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
Representing  Russia
2003 European U23 Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 5th 64.48 m
2004 Olympic Games Athens, Greece 19th 66.82 m
2005 World Championships Helsinki, Finland 2nd 72.46 m
2006 European Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 1st 76.67 m CR
World Cup Athens, Greece 2nd 74.44 m
2009 World Championships Berlin, Germany 6th 72.22 m
2010 European Cup Winter Throwing Arles, France 3rd 69.11 m
European Championships Barcelona, Spain 2nd 75.65 m
Continental Cup Split, Croatia 1st 73.88 m
2011 World Championships Daegu, South Korea 1st 77.13 m
2012 Olympic Games London, England DSQ 78.18 m
2013 World Championships Moscow, Russia 1st 78.80 m CR

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Tatyana Lysenko's profile at the IAAF site
  2. "Lysenko demolishes Melinte's World record with 77.06m". IAAF. 16 July 2005. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  3. Dolgopolov, Nickolai; Rostislav Orlov (12 June 2006). "World Hammer Throw record at Russian Champs, Day Two". IAAF. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  4. Dolgopolov, Nickolai; Rostislav Orlov (24 June 2006). "Lysenko regains World Hammer Throw Record – 77.41m at Znamenskiy Memorial". IAAF. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  5. Juck, Alfons; Marko Turban; Aivar Karotamm (15 August 2006). "Lysenko again! – 77.80 World record in Tallinn". IAAF. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  6. "World record holder Lysenko fails drugs test". ABC News. 21 July 2007. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  7. Doping Rule Violation
  8. IAAF report of 2009 Russian Champs
  9. "Murofushi and Heidler take overall titles and prize of $30,000 each – IAAF World Hammer Throw Challenge". IAAF. 8 September 2010. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  10. "IAAF: Women's Hammer Throw - Final - Lysenko upsets World record holder Heidler". IAAF. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  11. Sampaolo, Diego (16 August 2013). "Lysenko completes impressive hat-trick of global titles". IAAF. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  12. London 2012 positives return, in italian, 26 MAy 2016 Gazzetta dello Sport
  13. "Russian hammer thrower Tatyana Lysenko stripped of Olympic gold". espn.com. 12 October 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
Records
Preceded by
Romania Mihaela Melinte
Women's Hammer World Record Holder
July 15, 2005 – June 12, 2006
Succeeded by
Russia Gulfiya Khanafeyeva
Preceded by
Russia Gulfiya Khanafeyeva
Women's Hammer World Record Holder
June 24, 2006 — August 22, 2009
Succeeded by
Poland Anita Włodarczyk
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