Tatyana Shemyakina

Tatyana Shemyakina

Tatyana Shemyakina (on the left) in Osaka 2007.
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Russia
World Championships
2007 Osaka 20 km walk
Universiade
2011 Shenzhen 20 km walk

Tatyana Shemyakina (Russian: Татьяна Александровна Шемякина; born 3 September 1987) is a Russian race walker. She was born in Makarovka, Republic of Mordovia.[1]

Her first international medal was a bronze over 10,000 m at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Shemyakina won the silver medal at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. She entered the 2008 IAAF World Race Walking Cup but failed to finish the distance. She is part of a training group coached by Viktor Chegin.[2]

She was the 20 km champion at the 2007 European Athletics U23 Championships and went on to take the bronze medal at the 2009 European U23 Championships in Kaunas.[3] She was the runner-up at the 2011 Summer Universiade.

She has not competed in the sport since February 2012.[4]

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