Kseniya Aleksandrovna Aksyonova (née Ustalova) (russian: Ксения Александровна Аксенова; born 14 January 1988 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

sprinter who specialises in the

400 metres The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics (sport), athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor runn ...

. She has won gold medals in the

4 × 400 metres relay The 4 × 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 400 metres or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, th ...

with Russia in European competition in the junior (2007), under-23 (2009) and senior (2010) levels. She won the

silver medal A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc ...

in the individual 400 m at the

2010 European Athletics Championships The 2010 European Athletics Championships were the 20th edition of the European Athletics Championships, organised under the supervision of the European Athletic Association. They were held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, Cat ...

with a personal best run of 49.92 seconds. She won the relay gold at the

2011 Summer Universiade The 2011 Summer Universiade ( zh, c=2011年夏季世界大学生运动会, p=Èr líng yī yī Nián xiàjì shìjiè dàxuéshēng yùndònghuì), the XXVI Summer Universiade ( zh, c=第二十六届夏季世界大学生运动会, p=Dì Èrshíl ...

and won her first global level medal with a relay bronze at the

2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was the 14th edition of the global-level indoor track and field competition and was held between March 9–11, 2012 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey. It was the first of four ...

. Ustalova began 2013 with an indoor best 51.31 seconds to win the Russian indoor title.Dolgopolov, Nickolai & Orlov, Rostislav (2013-02-14)
Ustalova and Shubenkov post world leads at Russian Indoor Championships
IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-02-28.

International competitions

References

* 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Yekaterinburg Russian female sprinters Universiade gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade gold medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia Authorised Neutral Athletes at the World Athletics Championships World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists European Athletics Championships winners European Athletics Championships medalists Russian Athletics Championships winners {{Russia-athletics-bio-stub