Yelyzaveta Bryzhina
 Bryzhina as the final runner of Ukraine's women's 4x100m relay at the 2010 European Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yelyzaveta Bryzhina (Ukrainian: Єлизавета Бризгіна; born November 28, 1989[1] in Luhansk[2]) 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.[1]
Biography
Bryzhina is the daughter of the successful Soviet athletes Olga Bryzhina and Viktor Bryzhin.[2][3][4]
Bryzhina is a student at the Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University on a sports scholarship.
An interesting fact is that Yelizaveta and her mother Olga have achieved the same best performance over 200 m of 22.44 seconds.[1][5]
Bryzhina was part (with Nataliya Pohrebnyak, Mariya Ryemyen and Olesya Povh) of the Ukrainian women's 4 x 100 m relay, that won gold during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29 - the fastest time in the world that year.[6] Bryzhina won silver in the (individual) 200 m during this championship when she ran 22.44 (gold went to France's Myriam Soumare).[7]
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.[8][9][10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bryzhina Elizaveta Profile, International Association of Athletics Federations
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 (Ukrainian) Єлизавета Бризгіна: Головне — не участь, а перемога, Ukrayina Moloda (July 23, 2010)
- ↑ Romanization of Ukrainian differs from Romanization of Russian
- ↑ Russia dominates on day of upsets in Bergen - European Team Champs Day 2, International Association of Athletics Federations (June 21, 2010)
- ↑ IAAF profile for Olga Bryzgina
- ↑ Chris Tomlinson secures European long jump bronze, BBC (August 1, 2010)
- ↑ Lewis-Francis accepts blame for 4x100m relay disaster, BBC (July 31, 2010)
- ↑ "International Association of Athletics Federations". iaaf.org. Retrieved 2012-08-12.
- ↑ USA smash world 4x100m relay record to win Olympic gold, BBC Sport (10 August 2012)
- ↑ Women's 4 x 100m Relay Results, BBC Sport (10 August 2012)
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