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Anna Valeriïvna Mishchenko ( uk, Анна Валеріївна Міщенко; born 25 August 1983 in
Sumy), is a
Ukrainian
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middle distance runner who specializes in the
1500 metres
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.
Career
She won the 2006 Ukrainian national championships in the event. In 2008, she took sixth place in the
European Athletics Indoor Cup
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in
Moscow
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and represented
Ukraine at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Ukraine competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics. The country repeated its 2004 performance in terms of total medals, but its gold medal haul fell slightly from 8 to 7.
Medalists
Archery
Ukraine's men's archery team took seventh place at the 2007 ...
. She reached the final of the
1500 m competition, finishing in ninth place with a personal best of 4:05.13.
She first won the bronze medal in the
1500 metres
The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...
on the
2012 European Athletics Championships
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in
Helsinki
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,
Finland
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, subsequently upgraded to silver following the disqualification of winner
Aslı Çakır Alptekin for doping offences.
On 25 February 2016, the
IAAF
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announced, that she had been banned from competition for two years until 17 August 2017, and all her results since June 28, 2012 will be voided. This resulted from irregularities in her biological passport.
Personal bests
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All information taken from IAAF profile.Biographies: Mishchenko, Anna
IAAF
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. Retrieved on 2009-05-31.
References
External links
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Living people
Sportspeople from Sumy
Ukrainian female middle-distance runners
Olympic athletes for Ukraine
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for Ukraine
European Athletics Championships medalists
Doping cases in athletics
Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
1983 births
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Ukraine
Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade
20th-century Ukrainian women
21st-century Ukrainian women
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