Mariya Ryemyen ( uk, Марія Рємєнь; born 2 August 1987,

Makiivka Makiivka ( uk, Макіївка, Makíyivka, ; russian: Макеевка, Makeyevka, ), formerly Dmytriivsk, is an industrial city in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Located from the capital Donetsk, the two cities are practically a conurbati ...

) is a

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sprint athlete who specializes in the

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. Ryemyen was part (with

Nataliya Pohrebnyak Nataliya Olehivna Pohrebniak ( uk, Наталія Олегівна Погребняк, born 19 February 1988) is a Russian- Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres. Pohrebniak (with Yelizaveta Bryzhina, Mariya Ryemyen and Ol ...

, Olesya Povh and

Yelizaveta Bryzhina Yelyzaveta Viktorivna Bryzhina ( uk, Єлизавета Вікторівна Бризгіна; born November 28, 1989 in Voroshilovgrad) is a Ukrainian sprint athlete, who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best times are 11.42 seconds ...

) of the Ukrainian women's 4 × 100 m that won gold during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29 – the fastest time in the world that year.

Career

She finished seventh at the 2009 European U23 Championships. She also competed at the 2010 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final. In the 4 x 100 metres relay she competed at the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final. At the 2009 European U23 Championships the Ukrainian team failed to finish the race. Her personal best times are 7.15 seconds in the

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(indoor), achieved in March 2011 in

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; and 11.27 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in June 2011 in

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. In 2011, she competed for Fenerbahçe Athletics in

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. At the 2012 Olympics Maria represented the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the sports club "Ukraina". At the 2012 Olympic Games in

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she and her teammates Olesya Povh, Hrystyna Stuy and Yelizaveta Bryzghina took the bronze medals in the 4 x 100 metres relay by setting a new national record. She served a two-year doping ban for the use of a prohibited substance,

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. The ban lasted from 10 January 2014 to 2 March 2016.IAAF list of athletes suspended for doping
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References

1987 births Living people Sportspeople from Makiivka Ukrainian female sprinters Fenerbahçe athletes Olympic athletes of Ukraine Armed Forces sports society (Ukraine) athletes Olympic bronze medalists for Ukraine Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists Doping cases in athletics Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade gold medalists for Ukraine Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade Olympic female sprinters {{Ukraine-athletics-bio-stub