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Oksana Kondratyeva
Oksana Yurevna Kondratyeva (russian: Оксана Юрьевна Кондратьева; born 22 November 1985) is a Russian track and field athlete competing in the hammer throw. Her personal best of ranks her in the all-time top ten of the event. She represented Russia at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, placing seventh. She is a four-time participant at the Summer Universiade, with her best performance coming in 2013, when she won the silver medal. She holds the title of Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR and Russia, Russia Master of Sport – International Class. She is the daughter of hammer thrower Yuriy Sedykh and sprinter Lyudmila Kondratyeva. Career Early life and career Raised in Moscow, she is the daughter of two Olympic champions: 1976 and 1980 Hammer throw at the Olympics, Olympic hammer throw champion Yuriy Sedykh and 100 metres at the Olympics, 100 metres Olympic champion Lyudmila Kondratyeva. Her half-sister Alexia Sedykh is also an intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics (sport)
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing sports, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and racewalking. The results of racing events are decided by finishing position (or time, where measured), while the jumps and throws are won by the athlete that achieves the highest or furthest measurement from a series of attempts. The simplicity of the competitions, and the lack of a need for expensive equipment, makes athletics one of the most common types of sports in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of relay (athletics), relay races and competitions which combine athletes' performances for a team score, such as cross country. Organized athletics are traced back to the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC. The rules and format of the modern athletics events, events in athletics were defined in Western Europe and N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
