Anastasiya Mokhnyuk ( uk, Анастасія Мохнюк, born 1 January 1991) is a Ukrainian athlete who specialises in the

heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...

. She competed in the heptathlon event at the

2015 World Championships in Athletics The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ...

in Beijing, China. She won the silver medal in the pentathlon at the

2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 16th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held between March 17 and 20, 2016 in Portland, Oregon, United States. The event did not feature Russia. Following a WADA investigation into widespread and institutional doping practices ...

. On 14 April 2016 she tested positive for

meldonium Meldonium (INN; trade name Mildronate, among others) is a limited-market pharmaceutical, developed in 1970 by Ivars Kalviņš at the USSR Latvia Institute of Organic Synthesis, and now manufactured by the Latvian pharmaceutical company Grin ...

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* 1991 births Living people Ukrainian heptathletes World Athletics Championships athletes for Ukraine People from Nova Kakhovka Doping cases in athletics Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Ukraine Sportspeople from Kherson Oblast 21st-century Ukrainian women {{Ukraine-athletics-bio-stub