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The right hand photo above shows the last couple of strides in the final of the women's
1500m at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. Yelena (845) won the
silver, her first medal at a major championship, in a time of 3.58.99,
with the gold going to Maryam Yusuf Jamal. The centre picture above
shows the athletes at the bell with Soboleva and Jamal matching each
other stride for stride, whilst the left hand photo shows Yelena during
the heats.
She was later disqualified for taking drugs.
On 20th. October 2008, it was announced that Soboleva, along with six other Russian athletes received a two-year doping bans for manipulating drug samples. The ban would come into effect from April 2007, when the samples were given for testing.
In February 2008 she had established a new world indoor record of 3:58.05 seconds in a race in Moscow and in March 2008 she beat her own world record in Valencia.
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Women's 1500m
Final. 2007 World Athletics Champs
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| 1. Maryam Yusuf JAMAL |
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BRN |
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3: 58.75 |
| 2. Yelena SOBOLEVA |
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RUS |
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3: 58.99 DSQ |
| 3. Iryna LISHCHYNSKA |
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UKR |
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4: 00.69 |
| 4. Daniela YORDANOVA |
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BUL |
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4: 00.82 |
| 5. Mariem Alaoui SELSOULI |
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MAR |
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4: 01.52 |
| 6. Viola KIBIWOT |
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KEN |
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4: 02.10 |
| 7. Yuliya FOMENKO |
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RUS |
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4: 02.46 |
| 8. Agnes SAMARIA |
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NAM |
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4: 07.61 |
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Photo George Herringshaw 9th September 2006. ©
Yelena (105) is pictured above battling it out for second spot with Russia's Tatyana Tomashova
in the 1500m at the 2006 Grand Prix Final in Stuttgart. It was Tomashova who prevailed
by .23 of a second with Maryam Yusuf Jamal (out of shot) finishing first.
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Women's 1500m
2006 Grand Prix Final
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| 1. Maryam Yusuf Jamal |
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BRN |
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4: 01.58 |
| 2. Tatyana Tomashova |
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RUS |
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4: 03.26 |
| 3. Yelena Soboleva |
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RUS |
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4: 03.49 |
| 4. Sarah Jamieson |
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AUS |
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4: 04.32 |
| 5. Yuliya Chizhenko |
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RUS |
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4: 06.07 |
| 6. Lidia Chojecka |
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POL |
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4: 07.20 |
| 7. Carmen Douma-Hussar |
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CAN |
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4: 08.67 |
| 8. Hind Dehiba |
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FRA |
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4: 09.73 |
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Photo George Herringshaw 14th. August 2005. ©
| Yelena is pictured above (667) leading the field in the final of the
women's 1500m at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. She initially
finished fifth but was later elevated to fouth place when the silver
medal winner Yuliya Chizhenko was disqualified, meaning that all
athletes bar the winner Tatyana Tomashova (668) moved up one position.
Olga Yegorova who is obscured by Soboleva won the silver and Bouchra
Ghezielle (out of shot) the bronze. |
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Women's 1500m Final
2005 World Athletics Championships
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| 1. Tatyana TOMASHOVA |
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RUS |
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4: 00.35 |
| 2. Olga YEGOROVA |
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RUS |
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4: 01.46 |
| 3. Bouchra GHEZIELLE |
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FRA |
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4: 02.45 |
| 4. Yelena SOBOLEVA |
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RUS |
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4: 02.48 |
| 5. Maryam Yusuf JAMAL |
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BRN |
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4: 02.49 |
| 6. Natalia RODRIGUEZ |
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ESP |
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4: 03.06 |
| 7. Anna JACUBCZAK |
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POL |
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4: 03.38 |
| 8. Gelete Burika BATI |
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ETH |
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4: 04.77 |
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ANNUAL PROGRESS. 800 metres.
2013 2:00.17 Moskva 15 JUL
2012 1:59.90 Moskva 11 JUN
2011 2:03.45 Sochi 25 MAY
2006 1:57.28 Zhukovsky 24 JUN
2005 2:00.59 Tallinn 16 AUG
2003 2:01.65 Cheboksary 28 JUN
ANNUAL PROGRESS. 1,500 metres.
2013 4:04.30 Eugene, OR 01 JUN
2012 4:00.09 Cheboksary 06 JUL
2011 4:06.64 Moskva 09 JUL
2006 3:56.43 Paris Saint-Denis 08 JUL
2005 4:01.14 Tula, RUS 13 JUL
2004 4:11.98 Tula, RUS 24 JUN
2003 4:12.02 Tula, RUS 08 JUN