Anna Viktorovna Pyatykh (russian: Анна Викторовна Пятых) (born April 4, 1981, in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

) is a professional

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triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down t ...

er. She has won the SPAR European Cup four consecutive times, won bronze medals at the 2005 World Championships in

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and 2009 World Championships in

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. She has also competed at the

2004 Athens Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

. In 2006, she finished second at the

2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 11th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was held in Moscow from March 10 to March 12, 2006 in the Olimpiyski Sport arena. The announcement by the IA ...

behind countrywoman

Tatyana Lebedeva Tatyana Romanovna Lebedeva (russian: Татьяна Романовна Лебедева, born 21 July 1976) is a Russian track and field athlete who competes in both the long jump and triple jump events. She is one of the most successful athle ...

. She received a retrospective ban for doping after retest of her samples, resulting in the disqualification of her results at the

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in Osaka, Japan on 31 August 2007, and from 6 July 2013 to 15 December 2016.

International competitions

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* 1981 births Living people Athletes from Moscow Russian female triple jumpers Olympic female triple jumpers Olympic athletes for Russia Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia World Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists Russian Athletics Championships winners Doping cases in athletics Russian sportspeople in doping cases {{Russia-athletics-bio-stub

International competitions

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