Anna Vasylivna Ryzhykova, nee Yaroshchuk ( ua, Анна Василівна Рижикова (Ярощук); born 24 November 1989) is a Ukrainian track and field athlete who specialises in the

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. At the European Athletics Championships, she won silver medals in

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and

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, and bronze in

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. Ryzhykova placed fifth at the

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. She won gold medals at the 2011 Summer Universiade and European U23 Championships. Ryzhykova is the Ukrainian record holder in her specialist event with a time of 52.96 seconds.

Career

Anna Yaroshchuk began her career in the

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ing events and represented Ukraine in the

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at the Gymnasiade in 2006. In 2007, she ran a personal best of 24.58 seconds for the event and in a team with

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and Yelizaveta Bryzhina she set a national junior record in the 4×100 metres relay to take the silver medal at the

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.Anna Ryzhykova
Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2011-08-23. She switched to the 400 m hurdles a year later and the move proved beneficial, as she won the national junior title and placed sixth in the event at the

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.Anna Yaroshchuk

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. Retrieved on 2011-082-3. She also helped the Ukrainian

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team to win the

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behind the United States in national junior record time. She was eighth in the hurdles at the

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and Ukraine came fourth in the relay. Yaroshchuk won her first senior national title in the hurdles that year and improved her personal best time to 57.23 seconds. Further personal bests came at the 2010 Ukrainian championships, as she was runner-up in the 200 m and 400 m hurdles with times of 23.49 seconds and 55.60 seconds respectively. She gained selection for the

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, but was eliminated in the semi-final of the competition. Yaroshchuk ran a personal best of 54.77 seconds to win the hurdles gold at the

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ahead of compatriot

and the two later combined their efforts to claim the silver in the 4 x 400m relay behind Russia. She won her second 400 m hurdles gold of the season at the Summer Universiade. She placed third at the 2012 European Championships, clocking 54.35 seconds. The

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were unsuccessful for her, as she went out of the hurdles event in the second semi-final in 55.51, but won a bronze medal as part of women's 4 x 400m relay after the Russian team was disqualified for the second time in 2017. In 2018, Ryzhykova took a silver medal in her specialist event at the

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with a time of 54.51 seconds, behind only Switzerland's

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who ran 54.33.

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of Great Britain in third was almost one second slower. She placed seventh at the 2019 World Championships in a time of 54.45 seconds (equal with a mark of USA's Ashley Spencer in sixth). She then improved her position at the

by placing fifth in the final with a 53.48 seconds performance. Her compatriot

Viktoriya Tkachuk Viktoriya Viktorivna Tkachuk ( uk, Вікторія Вікторівна Ткачук; born 8 November 1994) is a Ukrainian athlete specialising in the 400 metres hurdles. She won the silver medal in the event at the 2022 European Athletics Cham ...

came sixth in 53.79.

Competition record

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ryzhykova, Anna Living people Athletes from Dnipro 1989 births Ukrainian female sprinters Ukrainian female hurdlers Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Ukraine European Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships athletes for Ukraine Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games gold medalists for Ukraine FISU World University Games silver medalists for Ukraine Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 European Games European Games medalists in athletics European Games gold medalists for Ukraine Ukrainian Athletics Championships winners Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Ukraine Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) 21st-century Ukrainian women Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games Military World Games silver medalists for Ukraine Military World Games medalists in athletics (track and field)