Olga Ryabinkina

Olga Sergeyevna Ryabinkina (Russian: Ольга Серге́евна Рябинкина; born September 24, 1976 in Bryansk) is a female shot putter from Russia.

She finished tenth at the 2000 Summer Olympics. At the 2004 Summer Olympics she failed to progress from the initial round.

In 2005, she achieved a personal best throw with 19.65 metres and won bronze at the European Indoor and silver at the World Championships. Eight years later she was pronounced 2005 World champion when a retest of Nadzeya Ostapchuks dopingsample revealed that she had been doping.^[1]

In 2006, she won the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships, finished fourth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and second at the World Cup, the latter in a season best of 19.54 metres.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Russia
1994	World Junior Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	9th	Shot put	15.31 m
1995	European Junior Championships	Nyíregyháza, Hungary	3rd	Shot put	16.55 m
1997	European U23 Championships	Turku, Finland	4th	Shot put	17.56 m
			4th	Discus throw	56.06 m
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	10th	Shot put	17.85 m
2003	World Championships	Paris, France	16th (q)	Shot put	17.74 m
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	12th (q)	Shot put	18.00 m
2005	European Indoor Championships	Madrid, Spain	3rd	Shot put	18.83 m
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	1st	Shot put	19.64 m
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	3rd	Shot put	19.24 m
	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	4th	Shot put	19.02 m
2007	European Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	3rd	Shot put	18.16 m

References

External links

• Olga Ryabinkina profile at IAAF
• sports-reference