Anastasiya Ovsyannikova (born 20 October 1988) is a

Paralympian The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...

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from

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competing mainly in category T36 sprint events.

Athletics career

Ovsyannikova competed at the

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, where she won a gold medal as part of the women's T35-38 100m sprint relay. As well as her Paralympic success Ovsyannikova won two medals at the 2011 World Championships in Christchurch. A silver as part of the Russian relay team and an individual bronze in the 400 metres. She took time away from athletics after the birth of her son in 2013, and has not appeared at a major international competition since.

Personal history

Ovsyannikova was born in

Sterlitamak Sterlitamak ( rus, Стерлитама́к, p=stʲɪrlʲɪtɐˈmak; ba, Стәрлетамаҡ, translit=Stärletamaq; ) is the second largest city in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located on the left bank of the Belaya River (Kama's ...

in the former

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

in 1988. Ovsyannikova was educated at Bashkir Institute of Physical Culture. She is married and gave birth to a son in 2013.

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ovsyannikova, Anastasiya Paralympic athletes for Russia Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Russia Living people 1988 births Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Russian female sprinters People from Sterlitamak Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) Sportspeople from Bashkortostan 21st-century Russian women