Yelena Vladimirovna Lebedenko (russian: Елена Владимировна Лебеденко; born 16 January 1971) is a retired

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

heptathlete A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...

and

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 ...

er.

Career

She won the gold medal in the pentathlon at the 1996 European Indoor Championships; in the heptathlon she finished eighteenth at the 1995 World Championships1995 World Championships Results - Heptathlon - Women
- IAAF.org and seventeenth at the

1996 Olympic Games The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

. She then changed event to the triple jump, where she finished sixth at the 1999 World Indoor Championships. Her personal best jump was 14.41 metres, achieved in May 1998 in

Vilamoura Vilamoura is a coastal resort in the Loulé municipality in Algarve, Portugal. It is one of the three corners of Algarve's Golden Triangle. Vilamoura comprises one of the largest single tourist complexes in Europe and with about 2,000 hectares ...

. Lebedenko represented Russia in the LWT television series International Gladiators held in Birmingham in 1995 and broadcast in the UK in 1996. She reached the semi-final stage where she was forced to retire injured.

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* 1971 births Living people Russian female triple jumpers Russian heptathletes Olympic athletes for Russia Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia {{Russia-athletics-bio-stub