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Viktoriya Prokopenko
Viktoriya Prokopenko (, ; born 17 April 1989) is a Russian triple jumper. She is a two-time national champion in that event, and she finished 7th at the 2018 World Athletics Indoor Championships. Biography Prokopenko was born in Saint Petersburg. Her first major international championship was at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships, where she was the first athlete to not qualify for the finals of the triple jump, missing the qualifying mark by two centimetres. From July 2013 to July 2015, Prokopenko was disqualified from all competitions for doping. She tested positive for the banned metabolite ostarine Enobosarm, also formerly known as ostarine and by the developmental code names GTx-024, MK-2866, and S-22, is a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) which is under development for the treatment of androgen receptor-positive breast canc ... at the Russian Youth Athletics Championships in June 2013. After her return to the sport, Prokopenko won her fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics (sport)
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping and throwing. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country 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 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
