The photo above shows the Russian 4x400m relay team - Olesya is far left - enjoying a lap
of honour after winning gold at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki.
The other athletes are, from left to right, Natalya Antyukh, Svetlana Pospelova and Yuliya Pechonkina.
Women's 4x400m. Relay final. 2005 World Athletics Championships.
1. Russia (Y. Pechonkina,
O. Krasnomovets, N. Antyukh, S. Pospelova)
3: 20.95
2. Jamaica (S. Williams, N. Williams, R. Smith, L. Fenton) 3: 23.29
3. GBR & NI (L. McConnell, D. Fraser, N. Sanders, C. Ohuruogu) 3: 24.44
4. Poland (A. Guzowska, M. Bejnar, G. Prokopek, A. Jesien) 3: 24.49
5. Ukraine (A. Yefremova, O. Ilyushkina, L. Pilyuhina, N. Pyhyda) 3: 27.00
6. Germany (C. Marx, C. Hoffmann, C. Fink, U. Urbansky) 3: 28.00
Brazil (M.L. Almirão, G.A. Coutinho, J. Tito, L. Teodoro) DSQ
Belarus (A. Nevmerzhitskaya, N. Sologub, A. Kozak, I. Usovich) DSQ
In 2006 Olesya Krasnomovets won the 400 metres at the World Indoor Championship
in Moscow (50.04) and another gold medal in the 4 x 400m relay. She won silver medals
in both event four years earlier in Budapest (2004).
Personal best times.
500 metres - 66.31 (2006)- indoors, world record
400 metres - 50.04 (2006)- indoors, 50.19 - outdoors
200 metres - 23.09 (2005)
ANNUAL PROGRESS 400 metres.
2011 51.86 Cheboksary 21 JUL
2010 52.41 Saransk 12 JUL
2009 52.47 Chelyabinsk 06 JUN
2007 52.87 Warszawa 17 JUN
2005 50.77 Dubnica nad Váhom 29 AUG
2004 50.19 Tula, RUS 05 JUN