Tatyana Chernova

Tatyana Chernova

Tatyana Chernova at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu
Personal information
Nationality Russian
Born 29 January 1988
Krasnodar, Russia
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Weight 63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Sport Heptathlon
Updated on July 2012.

Tatyana Sergeyevna Chernova (Russian: Татьяна Серге́евна Чернова; born 29 January 1988 in Krasnodar) is a Russian heptathlete. She was the bronze medalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, where she set her personal best of 6880 points.

Chernova also came third in the pentathlon at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Standing 1.89 m tall (6 ft 2.5 in), she is an all-round strong heptathlete performer, with particular strengths in the javelin throw, long jump and 800 metres events.

Career

She showed her promise in combined events at a young age and won gold medals at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics and the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics.[1] In 2007 she scored a total of 6768 points – the highest score ever reached by a junior, although it is classed as wind-assisted for record purposes. On her senior global debut at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics she failed to finish the competition.[2]

She rebounded the following year at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships, where she came seventh in the women's pentathlon. Later that summer she won the Hypo-Meeting in a personal best score of 6618 points and managed a performance of 6591 points at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[1] She originally finished fourth, but following the disqualification of Lyudmyla Blonska for doping, she was upgraded to the bronze medal (her first major senior medal).[3] She failed to build upon this in 2009 and ended the year with a season's best of 6386 points, having come eighth at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.[1]

Chernova preparing for the javelin throw in Kladno in 2011

At the start of the 2010 season, she won the bronze medal in the pentathlon at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, finishing behind Jessica Ennis and Nataliya Dobrynska. Chernova represented Russia at the 2010 European Athletics Championships and finished fourth in the heptathlon with 6512 points. She was the winner of the 2010 Décastar event, recording a total 6453 points, and this moved her into first place in the IAAF Combined Events Challenge rankings.[4]

Chernova began the 2011 season with a significant personal best of 6773 points at the TNT-Fortuna Meeting. This was a meeting record and represented an improvement of more than 150 points over her previous best. She had run a personal best in the 100 metres hurdles (13.32 seconds), but her consistency over all seven events proved to be the reason for the definitive improvement.[5]

Prior to the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, it was reigning champion Jessica Ennis who was ranked number one that year, followed by Chernova.[6] At the championships in Daegu, she equalled her bests in the 200 metres and the 100 m hurdles, and set an outright best in the shot put. On the final day, a strong performance in the javelin throw (52.95 m) saw Chernova overhaul and establish a significant lead over second placed Ennis.[7] She finished third in the 800 metres final, but still maintained her lead and became the world heptathlon champion with a personal best total of 6880 points.[8] Chernova won the Decastar Meeting a month later to take a consecutive series win on the IAAF Challenge circuit, having amassed 20,332 points over three competitions.[9][10]

Doping

After retesting of samples from the 2009 IAAF World Championships Chernova was found to have been doping. Her results from 15 August 2009 to 14 August 2011 was annulled and she was suspended for two years from 22 July 2013.[11] On March 25, 2015, the IAAF filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration in Lausanne, Switzerland, questioning the selective disqualification of the suspension periods of six other athletes disqualified about the same time. Chernova's case also involves strange gaps in her suspension periods, including opening up her eligibility 2 weeks before the World Championship Gold Medal and initiating another disqualification period less than two weeks after she won the Universiade Gold Medal[12]

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
2005 World Youth Championships Marrakech, Morocco 1st Heptathlon
2006 World Junior Championships Beijing, PR China 1st Heptathlon; 6227 = PB
2007 World Championships Osaka, Japan DNF Heptathlon
2008 World Indoor Championships Valencia, Spain 7th Pentathlon
Hypo-Meeting Götzis, Austria 1st Heptathlon; 6618 = PB
Olympic Games Beijing, PR China 3rd Heptathlon
2009 Hypo-Meeting Götzis, Austria 7th Heptathlon
World Championships Berlin, Germany DSQ (8th) Heptathlon
2010 World Indoor Championships Doha, Qatar DSQ (3rd) Pentathlon
European Championships Barcelona, Spain DSQ (4th) Heptathlon
2011 World Championships Daegu, South Korea 1st Heptathlon; 6880 = PB
2012 Olympic Games London, United Kingdom 3rd Heptathlon
2013 Universiade Kazan, Russia 1st Heptathlon

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chernova, Tatyana. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  2. ↑ Maryanchik, Natalia (2009-07-19). Focus on Athletes - Tatyana Chernova. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  3. ↑ Jalava, Mirko (2008-08-18). Women's Heptathlon 800m - FINAL Event. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  4. ↑ van Kuijen, Hans (19 September 2010). Suarez and Chernova prevail in Talence - IAAF World Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 19 September 2010.
  5. ↑ Procházka, Michal (2011-06-17). Chernova impresses with 6773pts tally in Kladno – IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  6. ↑ Rowbottom, Mike (21 August 2011). Women's Heptathlon - PREVIEW. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  7. ↑ Rowbottom, Mike (2011-08-30). Women's Heptathlon - Javelin Throw - Strong javelin throw propels Chernova into the driver’s seat. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  8. ↑ Rowbottom, Mike (2011-08-30). Women's Heptathlon 800m - Final - Chernova prevails in World leading 6880 performance. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  9. ↑ van Kuijen, Hans (2011-09-18). Strong second day propels Van Alphen and Chernova to victory in Talence. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  10. ↑ Suárez and Chernova are the overall winners of the 2011 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF (2011-09-22). Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  11. ↑ RUSADA: Russian athletes (athletics) recognized ineligible, 30 January 2015
  12. ↑ http://www.iaaf.org/news/iaaf-news/russian-doping-appeal-rusada

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