Olga Sergeevna Kucherenko (russian: Ольга Сергеевна Кучеренко; born 5 November 1985) is a
Russian long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...
er.
Career
She won the bronze 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 . She also competed at the
2008 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.
Her personal best jump is 7.13 metres, achieved in May 2010 in
Sochi
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. She has 6.87 metres on the indoor track, achieved in January 2008 in
Krasnodar
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.
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In 2011, she won the silver medal in the world championships in Daegu with a result of 6.77 m. However, this results was subsequently annulled due to a failed drug test. A 2016 retest of the sample she gave at the competition came back positive as a result of improved detection processes. She received a two-year ban from the sport and her results from the period 28 August 2011 to 28 August 2013 were removed from the records.][Palmer, Dan (2017-02-01)]
Long jumper Kucherenko banned for two years, reports claim
Inside the Games. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
Competition record
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1985 births
Living people
Russian female long jumpers
World Athletics Championships medalists
European Athletics Championships medalists
Athletes stripped of World Athletics Championships medals
Doping cases in athletics
Russian sportspeople in doping cases
21st-century Russian women
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