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Nataliya Pyhyda ( uk, Наталія Пигида; born 30 January 1981) is a Ukrainian
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 specializes in the
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and
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 ...
. Her personal best times are 22.82 seconds (2008) and 50.62 seconds (2015), respectively.


Career

As a junior, she finished sixth at the 2000 World Junior Championships. Her personal best at the time was 52.87 seconds, achieved in August 2000 in
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. She improved it to 52.76 seconds in July 2003 in Kyiv. At the 2003 World Championships she competed in the 4 x 400 metres relay without reaching the final. She finished fifth in the 200 metres event at the 2004 World Indoor Championships. At the
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she again competed in the 4 x 400 metres relay without reaching the final. In 2004, she greatly improved her personal bests in both her events, running the 200 metres in 23.04 seconds in July in
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and the 400 metres in 51.44 seconds in July in
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. The seasons 2005 and 2006 went by without personal bests in her main events, only the 60 metres (7.25 seconds, Kyiv, February 2005) and the
100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been conteste ...
(11.50 seconds, Kyiv, July 2005). At the 2005 European Indoor Championships the Ukrainian relay team finished fourth. She also finished fifth in the individual event. The relay team finished fifth at the 2005 World Championships. At the
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she finished fourth in the 200 metres and won a bronze medal in the relay. At the 2006 European Championships she reached the semi-final of the individual event, and finished sixth in the relay. At the end of the season she was chosen for Europe's relay team at the
2006 IAAF World Cup The 10th IAAF World Cup in Athletics was an international track and field sporting event, held under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, which took place on 16 and 17 September 2006 at the Olympic Stadium in Athe ...
. The team finished fourth. In 2007, she failed to run a single sub-24 or sub-52 second race. She failed to reach the relay final at the 2007 World Championships, but won a relay gold medal at the
2007 Summer Universiade The 2007 Summer Universiade officially known as the XXIV Summer Universiade and commonly known as Bangkok Universiade, was an international Multi-sport event, multi-sport for university athletes that took place from 8 to 18 August 2007 in Bangkok, ...
. She reached the 400 metres semi-final at the 2008 World Indoor Championships, and at the 2008 Olympics she reached the semi-final of the
200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slightl ...
, was disqualified in the
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, and failed to reach the final in the
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. In the summer of 2008 she had smashed her 200 best time, running in 22.82 seconds in Kyiv in June. In 2009, she won the silver medal at the
2009 European Indoor Championships The 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held in Turin, Italy, from Friday, 6 March to Sunday, 8 March 2009. The championships took place at the Oval Lingotto indoor arena
. With 51.44 seconds she equalled her personal best time from the outdoor track. She further improved to 51.38 seconds in June 2009 in
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. In July 2009, however, she tested positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol after a competition in
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. She was suspended from the sport from August 2009 to August 2011. She competed again at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was part of the Ukrainian team that won the silver medal at the 2014 European Athletics Championship.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pyhyda, Nataliia 1981 births Living people People from Nova Kakhovka Ukrainian female sprinters Olympic athletes for Ukraine Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics European Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships athletes for Ukraine Doping cases in athletics Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games gold medalists for Ukraine Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine Olympic bronze medalists for Ukraine Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade Olympic female sprinters Sportspeople from Kherson Oblast Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)