Elena Viktorovna Karpova (russian: Елена Викторовна Карпова) (born 14 June 1980 in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) is a Russian

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player. She was drafted into the WNBA by the Washington Mystics in 2001. She later played for several Russian teams and one in the Czech Republic before ending her basketball career in 2009. Karpova competed as a power forward for the Russian National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal.

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