Tatyana Kotova

For the Russian beauty queen, see Tatiana Kotova.

Tatyana Kotova

Tatyana Kotova (right) won bronze medal in 2007 World Championships.
Personal information
Born	(1976-12-11) December 11, 1976 Kokand, Uzbek SSR
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Medal record Women's athletics Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Long jump 2004 Athens Long jump World Championships 2001 Edmonton Long jump 2003 Paris Long jump 2007 Osaka Long jump

Tatyana Vladimirovna Kotova (Russian: Татьяна Владимировна Котова, born December 11, 1976) is an athlete who competes for Russia in the long jump. Her personal best jump of 7.42 m at Annecy in 2002, is the best distance achieved by a female long jumper in the 21st century (as of 2015).

Kotova won bronze medals in the event at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. She won three consecutive silver medals at the World Championships in Athletics from 2001 to 2005, also taking bronze in 2007. She had even greater success indoors, where she won the World Indoor Championships on three occasions, in 1999, 2003 and 2006, as well as finishing as runner-up in 2001 and 2004. She was later stripped of her 2005 World silver and 2006 World Indoor title. Her other titles include wins at the 2002 European Championships and the 2002 IAAF World Cup. She was third at the 2001 Goodwill Games and was the jackpot winner of the 2000 IAAF Golden League.

Life and career

Kotova was born in Kokand, Uzbek SSR, and grew up in Taboshar, Tajik SSR. She started to take up track and field in 1995, previously also practicing volleyball and basketball. Training in Barnaul, West Siberia, Kotova won a gold medal at the European U23 Championships in Turku, Finland, and in 1999 got a gold medal at the World Indoors in Maebashi. She was injured in a car accident in August 2000, and went on to finish fourth less than two months later at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

Doping

Kotova managed to both win and lose medals due to doping. In the 2000 Olympics, she had initially finished fourth. She was promoted to the bronze medal nine years later, after original bronze medal winner Marion Jones admitted usage of performance-enhancing drugs during the Olympics. However, in 2013, samples from the 2005 World Championships were retested and Kotova was found to have been doping. She was stripped of her silver medal at the World Championships, and also of the gold on the 2005 IAAF World Athletics Final, with Anju Bobby George promoted to first.

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing Russia
1997	European U23 Championships	Turku, Finland	1st	6.57 m (wind: -1.1 m/s)
1999	World Indoor Championships	Maebashi, Japan	1st	6.86 m
	World Championships	Seville, Spain	13th (qualifiers)	6.62 m
2000	Olympics Games	Sydney, Australia	3rd	6.83 m
	IAAF Golden League		Jackpot winner	Long jump
2001	World Indoor Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	2nd	6.98 m
	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	2nd	7.01 m
	Goodwill Games	Brisbane, Australia	3rd	6.84
2002	European Championships	Munich, Germany	1st	6.85 m
	IAAF World Cup	Madrid, Spain	1st	6.85 m
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	1st	6.84 m
	World Championships	Paris, France	2nd	6.74 m
	World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	2nd	6.92 m
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	2nd	6.93 m
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	3rd	7.05 m
2004	World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	3rd	6.65 m
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	DSQ (2nd)	DSQ (6.79 m)
2005	World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	DSQ (1st)	DSQ
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	DSQ (1st)	DSQ (7.00 m)
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	3rd	6.90 m
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	13th (qualifiers)	6.57 m
2010	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	18th (qualifiers)	6.48 m

References

• Tatyana Kotova at World Athletics

External links

• Tatyana Kotova Pictures