Yekaterina Nikolayevna Strokova (

Cyrillic , bg, кирилица , mk, кирилица , russian: кириллица , sr, ћирилица, uk, кирилиця , fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs , fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic , fam3 = Phoenician , fam4 = G ...

: Екатерина Николаевна Строкова; born 17 December 1989 in

Lipetsk Lipetsk ( rus, links=no, Липецк, p=ˈlʲipʲɪtsk), also romanized as Lipeck, is a city and the administrative center of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, located on the banks of the Voronezh River in the Don basin, southeast of Moscow. Populatio ...

) is a Russian

athlete An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-devel ...

whose specialty is the

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...

. She represented her country at two consecutive World Championships, in 2013 and 2015, failing to qualify for the final on both occasions. Her personal best in the event is 65.78 metres set in Moscow in 2014.

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* 1989 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Russian female discus throwers Competitors at the 2009 Summer Universiade World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia Russian Athletics Championships winners Sportspeople from Lipetsk {{Russia-athletics-bio-stub