Tetiana Hryhorivna Petlyuk or Tetiana Hryhorivna Petliuk ( uk, Тетяна Григорівна Петлюк; born 22 February 1982) is a Ukrainian runner who specializes in the

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. Her personal best time is 1:57.34 minutes, achieved in June 2006 in

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. She has an indoor best of 1:58.67 minutes, set in 2007. Petlyuk was a talented runner from a young age, winning a gold at the

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, a silver at the 1999 World Youth Championships in Athletics, then a bronze at the 2001 European Athletics Junior Championships. She was Ukraine's best 800 m runner from 2004 to 2009, winning seven national titles over the period. She represented Ukraine at the

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and 2008 Beijing Olympics, reaching the semi-finals both times. She was also a semi-finalist at three

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(2005, 2007, 2009). Her major medal wins came indoors: she was the runner-up at both the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships and the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Abnormalities in her

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detected over the period from 18 August 2009 to February 2013 led to her receiving a two-year ban from the sport and the annulment of her results over that time (including two of her three appearances at the

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and her run at the

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Career

Early career

Born in Kiev,Tetiana Petliuk
Sports Reference. Retrieved 11 May 2013. she enjoyed

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and

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in her youth before moving onto

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after beating boys in races at school. Her parents agreed to send her to a sports college in the capital in 1994.Tetiana Petlyuk
IAAF. Retrieved 11 May 2013. In her first international competition she won the 400 metres at the

in 1997. Further medals followed at the 1999 World Youth Championships in Athletics, where she was second to

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in the

and helped Ukraine to the bronze medal in the

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. She began to focus on middle-distance events thereafter. In 2000, she ran a personal best of 2:04.74 minutes for the 800 m and placed sixth in the event at the

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. In 2001, she gained entrance into Kyiv's National University of Physical Training and Sports – the top sports university in the country. At the 2001 European Athletics Junior Championships she was the bronze medallist but later reflected that she did not approach the competition professionally, having gone on a long shopping trip just hours before the final. She reduced her best to 2:02.41 minutes in 2002 and competed twice internationally in 2003, running in the heats at the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships and coming seventh at the

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First senior competitions

Her first senior medal came at the 2004 European Athletics Indoor Cup, where she ran a personal best of 2:01.14 minutes for the bronze. She won the Ukrainian indoor title but failed to make the final at the

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due to an injury involving her

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. After a seventh place at the 2004 European Cup she won her first national outdoor title, dipping under two minutes for the first time with her finish in 1:59.62 minutes. She produced a personal best of 1:59.48 minutes in the semi-finals of the

but this was not enough to enter the final as one of the fastest non-qualifiers. She failed to reach such heights in 2005 as her coach began working for

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. With little money or time with her coach, her fastest that year was 2:01.78 minutes. However, she still won a second national indoor title and was a semi-finalist at the 2005 European Athletics Indoor Championships and the

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. The following year her coach moved to

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and she again travelled with him. This time her training arrangements were more productive. In the indoor season she won the Sparkassen Cup meeting and was a semi-finalist at the

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.Tetiana Petlyuk
Tilastopaja. Retrieved 12 May 2013. Her outdoor opener of 1:57.34 minutes was her fastest that year. She was one of the favourites at the 2006 European Cup, but fell in the race and was sent to hospital with superficial injuries. She ran well at the 2006 European Athletics Championships, but was conservative in her tactics due to her previous fall: choosing not to run in the tightest lane, she ended up narrowly missing out on a medal and later investigation showed she had covered 817 m during the race. Her season ended with a sixth-place finish at the 2006 IAAF World Athletics Final.

European and World Indoor medals

Petlyuk began 2007 in good form, winning the Sparkassen Cup meet with an indoor best of 1:58.67 minutes and setting a meet record at the PSD Bank Meeting. She won a third straight Ukrainian indoor title and secured the silver medal at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships, finishing second to Oksana Zbrozhek. She was a semi-finalist at the

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, but persistent thigh pain dogged her season. After the end of the track and field season doctors diagnosed her with an intervertebral

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, stemming from her fall in 2006. She returned successfully after rehabilitation at the start of 2008, defeating Maria Mutola at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships and taking the silver medal in the 800 m final, behind Tamsyn Lewis. She was national champion both indoors and outdoors that year and represented Ukraine at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was an 800 m semi-finalist and also ran in the heats with the Ukrainian

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team. She did not compete in the remaining

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meets as she was called back to Kyiv to be presented with an apartment in recognition of her achievements. However, this never materialised and her season ended prematurely. She later remarked on the affair: "They said that my participation was obligatory, because the mayor of Kyiv had to give me keys for a new apartment in the Ukrainian capital. But finally I got just a commendation for my high results in athletics. I felt defrauded." She placed sixth at the

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, but was again just a semi-finalist outdoors at the

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. She again featured on the Ukrainian relay team, but did not make the final there either. She claimed national titles in the 800 m and the

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outdoors. At the World Championships she gave a blood sample during her doping test that would ultimately lead to the disqualification of all her results from 18 August 2009 to 15 February 2013. Performances at her national championships and results from the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships,

and the

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Doping ban

In early 2013 the Ukrainian Athletics Federation suspended Petlyuk for two years due to anomalies in her

, banning her from competition from February 2013 until February 2015.Mackay, Duncan (5 April 2013)
Athens 2004 Olympic shot put gold medallist given retrospective two-year doping ban
Inside the Games. Retrieved 11 May 2013.

Personal life

She earned a

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at Kyiv's National University of Sports and Physical Culture in 2008.

Personal bests

;Outdoor *

– 1:57.34 (2006) *

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– 2:41.69 (2007) *

– 4:06.51 (2009) ;Indoor *800 metres – 1:58.67 (2007) *1000 metres – 2:34.76 (2007) *1500 metres – 4:10.91 (2008)

Achievements

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Petlyuk, Tetyana 1982 births Living people Sportspeople from Kyiv Ukrainian female middle-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Ukraine Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in athletics 20th-century Ukrainian women 21st-century Ukrainian women