Yelizaveta Bryzhina

Yelyzaveta Bryzhina

Bryzhina as the final runner of Ukraine's women's 4x100m relay at the 2010 European Championships
Personal information
Born	November 28, 1989 (1989-11-28) (age 27) Luhansk, Ukraine
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb)
Medal record Representing  Ukraine Women's athletics Olympic Games 2012 London 4×100 m relay European Championships 2010 Barcelona 4x100 metres relay 2010 Barcelona 200 metres European Junior Championships 2007 Hengelo 200 m 2007 Hengelo 4×100 m relay Continental Cup 2010 Split 200 metres 2010 Split 4×100 metre relay Universiade 2011 Shenzhen 4x100 m relay

Yelyzaveta Viktorivna Bryzhina (Ukrainian: Єлизавета Вікторівна Бризгіна; born November 28, 1989 in Luhansk) is a Ukrainian sprint athlete, who specializes in the 100 metres.

Her personal best times are 11.44 seconds in the 100 m (outdoor), achieved in June 2007 in Kyiv; and 22.44 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in July 2010 in Barcelona.

Bryzhina is the daughter of the successful Soviet athletes Olga Bryzhina and Viktor Bryzhin.

Bryzhina is a student at the Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University on a sports scholarship.

Yelizaveta and her mother Olga have achieved the same best performance over 200 m of 22.44 seconds.

Bryzhina was part (with Nataliya Pohrebnyak, Mariya Ryemyen and Olesya Povh) of the Ukrainian women's 4 × 100 m relay, that won gold during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29 - the fastest time in the world that year. Bryzhina won silver in the (individual) 200 m during this championship when she ran 22.44 (gold went to France's Myriam Soumare).

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London she and her teammates Olesya Povh, Mariya Ryemyen and Hrystyna Stuy took the bronze medals in the 4 x 100 metres relay by setting a new national record.