Irina YATCHENKO

Irina Yatchenko - Belarus - 2003 World Champs Discus Champion.

Photo/Foto: George Herringshaw

Date: 08 August 2006

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    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Sunday, 31 October 1965
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      Gomel, Belarus
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  • Belarus
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Irina YATCHENKO - Belarus - 2003 World Champs Discus Champion.

Irina is pictured above at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg.

The finest moment of her career came at the 2003 World Championships in Edmonton

where she took the gold medal with a throw of 67.32m. Yatchenko also won

bronze medals at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games.  (Well she did not - see below)


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Women's Discus Final.

Olympic Games 2000

1. Ellina Zvereva   BLR   68.40
2. Anastasia Kelesidou   GRE   65.71
3. Irina Yatchenko   BLR   65.20 
4. Natalya Sadova   RUS   65.00
5. Stiliani Tsikouna   GRE   64.08
6. Franka Dietzsch   GER   63.18
7. Ilke Wyludda   GER   63.16
8. Lisa Marie Vizaniari   AUS   62.57

 

 

Women's Discus final.

2003 World Athletics Championships

1. Irina YATCHENKO   BLR   67.32
2. Anastasia KELESÍDOU   GRE   67.14
3. Ekaterina VÓGGOLI   GRE   66.73
4. Olena ANTONOVA   UKR   65.90
5. Vera POSPÍSILOVA   CZE   65.55
6. Natalya SADOVA   RUS   65.22
7. Aimin SONG   CHN   63.84
8. Anna SÖDERBERG   SWE   61.61

 

 

Women's Discus Final.

Olympic Games 2004

1. Natalya Sadova   RUS   67.02
2. Anastasia Kelesidou   GRE   66.68
3. Irina Yatchenko   BLR   66.17 Disq
4. Vera Pospisilova Cechlova   CZE   66.08
5. Olena Antonova   UKR   65.75
6. Nicoleta Grasu   Rom   64.92
7. Beatrice Faumuina   NZL   63.45
8. Ekaterini Voggoli   GRE   62.37

 

 

When the IOC in 2012 re-analysed stored samples from the 2004 Summer Olympics, Yatchenko's sample was found positive for the anabolic steroid Methandienone. 

The IOC subsequently disqualified her results from the Athens Olympics and she was made to return the bronze medal and diploma.

The IAAF also banned her for two years from sports and disqualified all her results from 21 August 2004 to 20 August 2006.

 

ANNUAL PROGRESS.

 

2009     62.66     Minsk   29 MAY
2008     67.89     Minsk    29 JUN
2007     64.87     Minsk     28 JUL

 

2004     69.14     Minsk     31 JUL (Personal best)
2003     67.32     Paris Saint-Denis  25 AUG
2002     64.23     Athína     10 JUN
2001     66.65     Minsk     13 JUL
2000     65.42     Nice     08 JUL
1999     66.18     Lahti     05 JUN
1998     64.00     Khania     27 MAY
1997     68.32     Gomel     03 JUL
1996     65.80     Minsk     13 JUL
1995     66.14     Minsk   19 MAY
1993     58.74     Gomel     24 JUL
1992     68.94     Nice     15 JUL
1991     64.92     Tokyo   31 AUG
1990     67.60     Kyiv     07 JUL
1989     62.38     Gorkiy     22 JUL
1988     67.44     Leningrad     12 JUN
1987     63.00     Moskva     22 AUG
1986     57.58     Lvov     09 AUG
1985     60.58     Minsk     04 SEP
1984     59.54     Minsk (Stayki)     27 APR
1983     57.04     Leselidze     28 APR