Tatsiana Uladzimirauna Khaladovich ( be, Таццяна Уладзіміраўна Халадовіч;

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: Tacciana Chaładovič; born 21 June 1991) is a Belarusian

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 ...

athlete who competes in the

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. She won gold at the 2016 European Championships, where she set a personal best and Belarusian record of 66.34 m.

Career

Khaladovich finished fifth at the 2014 European Championships in

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. She won the gold medal at the

2015 Summer Universiade ) , Nations participating = 143 , Athletes participating = 12,885 , Events = 272 in 21 sports , Opening ceremony = , Closing ceremony = , Officially opened by = Park Geun-hye , Athlete's Oath = Kim Seong-yeon and Kim Kuk-young , Judge's Oath = K ...

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. At the 2016 European Championships in

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, she won the gold medal with a personal best, 66.34 metres. She placed fifth at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

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. In 2019, she won the silver medal in the team event at the

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held in Minsk, Belarus.

Competition record

References

1991 births Living people Belarusian female javelin throwers World Athletics Championships athletes for Belarus European Athletics Championships medalists Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Belarus Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games gold medalists for Belarus Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 European Games European Games medalists in athletics European Games gold medalists for Belarus European Games silver medalists for Belarus Diamond League winners Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade Sportspeople from Pinsk {{Belarus-athletics-bio-stub