Irina Nikolaevna Belova (russian: Ирина Николаевна Белова; née Ilyichova born 27 March 1968 in
Angarsk
Angarsk ( rus, Ангарск, p=ɐnˈgarsk) is a city and the administrative center of Angarsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Kitoy River, from Irkutsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:
History
It wa ...
) is a retired
heptathlete
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 ...
from
Russia
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. In her early career she represented USSR, with a fourth place at the
1990 European Championships and a bronze medal at the
1991 World Championships. Her career highlight came in 1992 as she won an Olympic silver medal. In February the same year she set the world record in indoor
pentathlon with 4991 points. She originally won the pentathlon at the
1993 World Indoor Championships, but failed a
drug test
A drug test is a technical analysis of a biological specimen, for example urine, hair, blood, breath, sweat, or oral fluid/saliva—to determine the presence or absence of specified parent drugs or their metabolites. Major applications of dr ...
and received a four-year suspension.
Sports Reference - Irina Belova
Personal bests
Achievements
See also
*List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences
The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople who have been involved in doping offences. It contains those who have been found to have, or have admitted to having, taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs, prohibited recreational drugs or ...
References
External links
*
Irina Belova
at All-Athletics.com
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1968 births
Living people
People from Angarsk
Russian heptathletes
Russian sportspeople in doping cases
Soviet heptathletes
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Doping cases in athletics
Olympic athletes of the Unified Team
Olympic silver medalists for the Unified Team
World Athletics Championships medalists
Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
CIS Athletics Championships winners
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Irkutsk Oblast