Nataliya Grygoryeva

Medal record
Women's athletics
World Championships
Bronze 1991 Tokyo 100 m hurdles

Nataliya Grygoryeva (Ukrainian: Наталія Григорьєва, née Dorofeyeva; born 3 December 1962) is a retired athlete who specialized in the 100 metres hurdles. She represented the Soviet Union and Ukraine, and holds the Ukrainian record.

Career

She was born in Ishimbay in today's Bashkortostan, and represented the club Spartak in Kharkiv.[1] She finished fourth at the 1988 Olympic Games,[2] won the gold medal at the 1990 Goodwill Games,[3] and won the bronze medal at the 1991 World Championships.[2] She was caught for doping around this point in her career.[4]

She also competed at the 1990 European Championships, [5] the 1996 Olympic Games[1] and the 1997 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.[2]

Her personal best time was 12.39 seconds, achieved in July 1991 in Kiev.[2] This is the current Ukrainian record, even though she achieved it whilst representing the Soviet Union.[6][7] In the 60 metres hurdles she had a personal best time of 7.85 seconds, achieved in February 1990 in Chelyabinsk.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Nataliya Grigoryeva". Sports-Reference.com. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/nataliya-grigoryeva-2.html. Retrieved 26 March 2010. 
  2. ^ a b c d e IAAF profile for Nataliya Grygoryeva
  3. ^ "Goodwill Games". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/gg.htm. Retrieved 26 March 2010. 
  4. ^ Janofsky, Michael (19 July 1992). "Sophisticated Doping Begets More Testing". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/19/sports/olympics-sophisticated-doping-begets-more-testing.html?sec=health. Retrieved 26 March 2010. 
  5. ^ "Women 100m Hurdles European Championships 1990 Split (YUG)". Todor Krastev. http://www.todor66.com/athletics/europe/1990/Women_100m_Hurdles.html. Retrieved 26 March 2010. 
  6. ^ "100 Metres Hurdles All Time". IAAF. Updated as at 15 October 2009. http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/inout=o/age=n/season=0/sex=W/all=y/legal=A/disc=100H/detail.html. Retrieved 20 March 2010. 
  7. ^ "IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009" (pdf). IAAF. p. 602 (p. 258 in this pdf). http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf. Retrieved 20 March 2010.