Svetlana Sergeevna Biryukova (née Denyaeva; russian: Светлана Сергеевна Бирюкова (Деняева); born 1 April 1991) is a Russian

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athlete who specialises in the

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. Her personal best for the event is , set indoors in 2014. She served a two-year ban for doping between 2014 and 2016.

Career

Born in

Saint Petersburg 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 ...

,Denyayeva Svetlana
Russian Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-02-26. she competing in national long jump competitions as a teenager and cleared a personal best of in 2007. Her performances stagnated until 2010,Svetlana Biryukova
Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-02-26. when she improved to . That year she won the Russian

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indoor championships and was runner-up at the outdoor meeting. Biryukova added the

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

to her oeuvre the following year. She set personal bests at the Russian under-23 championships, winning the triple jump in and finishing second in the long jump with . She represented Russia in both events at the

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– she was eliminated in long jump qualifying but came eighth in the triple jump final. She refocused on the long jump and made significant improvements in 2012, clearing a best of . She came ninth (upgraded to eighth after

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was disqualified) at the

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in her first senior international outing, but managed only tenth place at the

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. The 2013 season also had mixed fortunes for Biryukova: she set several personal bests (7.50 for the

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, in the long jump, in the triple jump) and placed third at the Russian indoor championships, but did not get past the qualifying of the

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– her only outing for Russia that year. Biryukova had a strong start to 2014. She cleared a world-leading mark of at the

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, beating the reigning European indoor champion

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. She matched that jump at the

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later that January to beat

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's meeting record. At the Russian indoor championships, Biryukova again got the better of national rival Klishina and won her first national title in the long jump. She is currently serving a 2-year doping ban for the use of prohibited substances,

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. The ban lasts between 26 February 2014 and 3 March 2016.IAAF list of sanctioned athletes
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Personal bests

– 7.50 sec (2013) *

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 ...

outdoor – (2012) *Long jump indoor – (2014) *

Triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

outdoor – (2011) *Triple jump indoor – (2013)

References

* Some sources give the athletes date of birth as 12 May 1991.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Biryukova, Svetlana Living people 1991 births Russian female long jumpers Athletes from Saint Petersburg Doping cases in athletics Russian sportspeople in doping cases