Maryna Aliaksandrauna Arzamasova (née Katowich, be, Марына Аляксандраўна Арзамасава (Катовіч), russian: Марина Александровна Арзамасова; born 17 December 1987) is a Belarusian middle-distance runner. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's 800 metres. She won a bronze medal at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships in the

800 metres The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since t ...

. In August 2014, Arzamasova won

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in the

in a European leading time of 1:58.15. One year later she became world champion in the

at the

2015 World Championships in Athletics The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ...

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. In 2019, she won the silver medal in the team event at the

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held in Minsk, Belarus. Her mother, Ravilya Agletdinova was also a middle-distance runner and won the 1500 m European title in 1986 – an achievement which Arzamasava repeated. In August 2019, Arzamasova was provisionally suspended after testing positive for the banned steroid-like substance LGD-4033.

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* 1987 births Living people Athletes from Minsk Belarusian people of Tajikistani descent Belarusian female middle-distance runners Olympic athletes of Belarus Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Belarus World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 European Games European Games medalists in athletics European Games silver medalists for Belarus World Athletics Championships winners {{Belarus-athletics-bio-stub