- Olesya Povh
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Medal record 
Olesya PovhWomen's athletics Competitor for 
UkraineWorld Championships Bronze 2011 Daegu 4×100 m relay European Championships Gold 2010 Barcelona 4×100 m relay European Indoor Championships Gold 2011 Paris 60 m Continental Cup Silver 2010 Split 4×100 m relay Olesya Povh (Ukrainian: Олеся Повх (Olesya Povkh); born October 18, 1987[1]) is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best times include 11.29 seconds in the 100 m, achieved in July 2009 in Donetsk.[1]
She had her first year of international competition in 2010. She reached the semi-finals of the 60 metres at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships and took a relay bronze medal with Ukraine at the 2010 European Team Championships. She gained selection for the 100 m at the 2010 European Athletics Championships and was eliminated in the semi-finals. However, she went on to have success at the competition as part of the Ukrainian 4×100 m relay team: running with Nataliya Pohrebnyak, Mariya Ryemyen, and Yelizaveta Bryzhina, the team won the gold medal in a national record time of 42.29 seconds – the fastest mark in the world that year.[2] The team reprised their roles for the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup, representing Europe, and took the silver medal behind the Americas team.[3]
She graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk State Institute of Physical Culture and Sports in 2010 and chose to focus on athletics full-time in 2011. She began the year with a 60 metres best run of 7.14 seconds, gaining selection for the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships.[4]
References
- ^ a b Povh Olesya Profile, International Association of Athletics Federations
- ^ Chris Tomlinson secures European long jump bronze, BBC (August 1, 2010)
- ^ 2010 Continental Cup 4x100 Metres Relay – W Final. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-01-23.
- ^ Ukraine’s Povh speeds to world-leading 60m. European Athletics (2011-01-23). Retrieved on 2011-01-23.
European Champions in Women's 4 x 100 m relay 1938: Germany (Kohl, Krauß, Albus, Kühnel) • 1946: Netherlands (van der Kade-Koudijs, Witziers-Timmer, Adema, Blankers-Koen) • 1950: Great Britain (Hay, Desforges, Hall, Foulds) • 1954: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Uliskina, Itkina, Turova) • 1958: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Kepp, Polyakova, Maslovskaya) • 1962: Poland (Ciepły, Sobotta, Szyroka, Piątkowska) • 1966: Poland (Bednarek, Straszynska, Kirszenstein, Kłobukowska) • 1969: East Germany (Höfer, Meissner, Podeswa, Vogt) • 1971: West Germany (Schittenhelm, Helten, Irrgang, Mickler) • 1974: East Germany (Maletzki, Stecher, Heinich, Eckert) • 1978: Soviet Union (Anisimova, Maslakova, Kondratyeva, Storoshkova) • 1982: East Germany (Walther, Eckert, Rieger, Göhr) • 1986: East Germany (Gladisch, Rieger, Brestrich-Auerswald, Göhr) • 1990: East Germany (Möller, Krabbe, Behrendt, Günther) • 1994: Germany (Paschke, Knoll, Zipp, Lichtenhagen) • 1998: France (Benth, Bangué, Félix, Arron) • 2002: France (Combe, Hurtis, Félix, Sidibé) • 2006: Russia (Gushchina, Rusakova, Khabarova, Grigoryeva) • 2010: Ukraine (Povh, Pohrebnyak, Ryemyen, Bryzhina)
Categories:- 1987 births
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- Ukrainian sprinters
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