Tatyana Chernova
Chernova in 2011
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| Nationality | Russian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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29 January 1988 Krasnodar, Russia |
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| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Heptathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Tatyana Sergeyevna Chernova (Russian: Татьяна Серге́евна Чернова; born 29 January 1988 in Krasnodar) is a Russian heptathlete. She was the bronze medalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics and originally was awarded the gold medal at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics before being disqualified for doping.
Standing 1.89 m tall (6 ft 2.5 in), she was considered an all-round strong heptathlete performer, with particular strengths in the javelin throw, long jump and 800 metres events.
Chernova showed her promise in combined events at a young age and won gold medals at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics and the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics. In 2007 she scored a total of 6768 points – the highest score ever reached by a junior, although it is classed as wind-assisted for record purposes. On her senior global debut at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics she failed to finish the competition.
She rebounded the following year at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships, where she came seventh in the women's pentathlon. Later that summer she won the Hypo-Meeting in a personal best score of 6618 points and managed a performance of 6591 points at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She originally finished fourth, but following the disqualification of Lyudmyla Blonska for doping, she was upgraded to the bronze medal (her first major senior medal). She failed to build upon this in 2009 and ended the year with a season's best of 6386 points, having come eighth at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.
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