Svetlana Sokolova

Russian heptathlete

Svetlana Sokolova
Personal information
Native name	Светла́на Ви́кторовна Соколо́ва
Citizenship	Russia
Born	(1981-01-09) January 9, 1981 (age 43) Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR
Height	176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)

Svetlana Viktorovna Sokolova (Russian: Светлана Викторовна Соколова; born 9 January 1981 in Baku, Azerbaijan^[1]) is a retired athlete who competed internationally for Russia in the combined events.^[2] She represented her country in the heptathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens finishing tenth. She also won the silver medal at the 2001 Summer Universiade and was fifth at the 2002 European Championships.

International competitions

Representing Russia
Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Result	Notes
1998	World Youth Games	Moscow, Russia	1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:44.54
			1st	100 metres hurdles	13.42
			3rd	Long jump	6.17 m
	World Junior Championships	Annecy, France	4th	Heptathlon	5711 pts
2001	European U23 Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	2nd	Heptathlon	6179 pts
2001	Universiade	Beijing, China	2nd	Heptathlon	5985 pts
2002	European Championships	Munich, Germany	5th	Heptathlon	6150 pts
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	10th	Heptathlon	6210 pts

Personal bests

Outdoor

200 metres – 24.02 (+0.6 m/s) (Tula 2004)
800 metres – 2:07.23 (Tula 2004)
100 metres hurdles – 13.56 (+1.1 m/s) (Tula 2004)
High jump – 1.82 (Tula 2004)
Long jump – 6.26 (+0.3 m/s) (Tula 2004)
Shot put – 15.09 (Tula 2004)
Javelin throw – 47.86 (Athens 2004)
Heptathlon – 6591 (Tula 2004)

Indoor

800 metres – 2:18.75 (Moscow 2006)
60 metres hurdles – 8.48 (Moscow 2006)
High jump – 1.73 (Moscow 2006)
Long jump – 6.36 (Moscow 2001)
Shot put – 14.31 (Moscow 2006)
Pentathlon – 4442 (Moscow 2006)

References

^ Sports-Reference profile
^ Svetlana Sokolova at World Athletics

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Russian Athletics Championships women's heptathlon champions

1992: Vera Maloletnyeva
1993: Tatyana Blokhina
1994: Svetlana Moskalets
1995: Irina Tyukhay
1996: Svetlana Moskalets
1997: Irina Vostrikova
1998: Dina Koritskaya
1999: Irina Tyukhay
2000: Yelena Prokhorova
2001: Alena Vindyuk
2002: Svetlana Sokolova
2003: Natalya Roshchupkina
2004: Svetlana Sokolova
2005: Natalya Roshchupkina
2006: Yuliya Ignatkina
2007: Anna Bogdanova
2008: Olga Kurban
2009: Svetlana Ladokhina
2010: Yana Panteleyeva
2011: Olga Kurban
2012–13: Kristina Savitskaya
2014: Aleksandra Butvina
2015: Lyubov Tkach
2016–17: Mariya Gromysheva
2018: Viktoriya Vaseykina
2019: Mariya Pavlova

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