Anna Sergeyevna Nazarova-Klyashtornaya (

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: Анна Сергеевна Назарова; born 3 February 1986)Назарова Анна Сергеевна
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Russian Athletics Federation The Russian Athletics Federation (RAF), previously named the All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF; russian: Всероссийская федерация лёгкой атлетики, ВФЛА), is the governing body for the sport of athletics in ...

. Retrieved on 2011-08-22. is a Russian

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athlete who competes in the

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 ...

. A two-time Russian champion indoors, her best mark for the event is 7.11 metres. She represented Russia at the

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and the 2012 Summer Olympics and won gold medals at the

2007 European Athletics U23 Championships The 6th European Athletics U23 Championships was held between 12 and 15 July 2007 in the Gyulai István Athletic Stadium in Debrecen, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Car ...

and 2011 Summer Universiade. On 30 November 2017 she was disqualified from the 2012 Summer Olympics, as a result of a positive doping test for

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Early life and junior athletics 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 ...

, and taking up athletics at the age of 8, she began competing nationally in the long 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 ...

around 2003. Her first international competition was the 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics, where she took part in the long jump qualifying, and she won her first long jump medal (a bronze) at the

2005 European Athletics Junior Championships The 2005 European Athletics Junior Championships was the 18th edition of the biennial athletics competition for European under-20 athletes, which was held in Kaunas, Lithuania on 21–24 July. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Referenc ...

Senior athletics career

Moving up to senior level, she came second at the European Champions Club Cup in 2006 and won the Russian indoor long jump title the following year, going on to represent Russia at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships. That same year she won the gold medal at the

with a personal best jump of 6.81 m and came fifth at the 2007 Summer Universiade.Anna Nazarova
Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2011-08-22. She rarely competed internationally in 2008 and 2009, but managed third at the 2008 Russian Athletics Championships and was third at the 2009 Decanation competition. Nazarova returned to the top spot domestically with a win at the Russian Indoor Championships in 2010 and she was a long jump finalist at the

. Further indoor success came the following season when she jumped a personal best of 6.89 m at the Governor's Cup meet, placed second at the

Russian Winter meeting The Russian Winter Meeting (russian: Русская Зима) is an annual indoor track and field competition which is held at the Kutz Arena within the CSKA Universal Sports Hall in Moscow, Russia, every February. The event is part of the annual ...

and was runner-up at the Russian Championships. She was again selected for the national team, but did not make the final at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships. Following an outdoor best jump of 6.88 m at the Russian Athletics Cup, she was the favourite for the long jump title at the 2011 Summer Universiade, which she comfortably won with a jump of 6.72 m ahead of second-placed Yuliya Pidluzhnaya. At the 2014 European Championships, she finished 10th in the final, with a jump of 6.31 m.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nazarova, Anna Living people 1986 births Athletes from Saint Petersburg Russian female long jumpers Olympic athletes for Russia Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Russian sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in athletics FISU World University Games gold medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade