Viktoriya Ivanivna Styopina ( uk, Вікторія Іванівна Стьопіна; born 21 February 1976 in
Zaporozhia
Zaporizhzhia ( uk, Запоріжжя) or Zaporozhye (russian: Запорожье) is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia has a populatio ...
,
Soviet Union
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), known as Vita Styopina (), is a
Ukrainian
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high jumper.
Biography
She won the
bronze medal at the
2004 Summer Olympics, setting a new personal best of 2.02m in the process.
Styopina jumped an indoor personal best of 1.94 m to win the 2000 edition of the
Hochsprung mit Musik
The ''Hochsprung mit Musik'' () is an annual indoor high jump meeting which takes place in February in Arnstadt, Germany.
First held in 1977, the meeting began as a competition between mainly East German athletes. Following the Re-unification o ...
.
Achievements
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2nd IAAF World Athletics Final — Silver medal
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2004 Summer Olympics — Bronze medal
See also
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Female two metres club
References
External links
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1976 births
Living people
Ukrainian female high jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Ukraine
Olympic athletes of Ukraine
Sportspeople from Zaporizhzhia
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
21st-century Ukrainian women
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