Irina Meleshina
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| Birth name | Irina Aleksandrovna Meleshina-Simagina | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Long Jump | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | Long Jump: 7.27 metres (2004) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Irina Aleksandrovna Meleshina-Simagina (Russian: Ирина Александровна Симагина) (born 25 May 1982, in Ryazan) is a Russian long jumper.
Simagina won the
2005 World Championships, despite having entered the competition, and gave birth to a daughter in the summer of 2006.[1]
She returned to competition in early 2007.
Her personal best jump is 7.27 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Tula.
Performance Enhancement Drug Use
On April 24, 2012, The Russian athletics federation sanctioned Meleshina with a 2-year ban from competition retroacted to Feb. 21, 2012, following a positive drug test in February of the same year. Thus, eliminating her bid for the
2012 Olympic Summer Games in London.[2]
Achievements
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes | |
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Representing  Russia
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| 2000 | World Junior Championships | Santiago, Chile | 6th | 6.21 m (wind: +0.2 m/s) | |
| 2002 | European Indoor Championships
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Vienna, Austria | 4th | 6.64 m | |
| 2003 | European U23 Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 2nd | 6.70 m (wind: 1.6 m/s) | |
| Universiade | Daegu, South Korea | 1st | 6.49 m | ||
| 2004 | Summer Olympics | Athens, Greece | 2nd | 7.05 m | |
| World Athletics Final | Monte Carlo, Monaco | 1st | 6.74 m | ||
| 2005 | World Athletics Final | Monte Carlo, Monaco | 6th | 6.47 m | |
| 2008 | World Indoor Championships | Valencia, Spain
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3rd | 6.88 m | |
References
- IAAF. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- IAAF. 2 November 2012. Archived from the originalon 13 November 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
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