Anastasiya Prokopenko, nee Samusevich (;

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: Nastassia Samusievič Prakapienka; born 20 September 1985) is a Belarusian

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who competed at three

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Career

In 2018, she was awarded the bronze medal of the women's competition at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, following the disqualification of Ukraine's Viktoriya Tereshchuk, due to a doping offense. She finished sixth in

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. Prokopenko also set a world record time of 10:20.90 in the combined running and shooting segment. Prokopenko also won a team gold medal at the 2007 World Modern Pentathlon Championships in

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, along with her compatriots Tatsiana Mazurkevich and Hanna Vasilionak. At the 2018 World Modern Pentathlon Championships in

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, Prokopenko won the world title in the women's individual event as well as in the Women's Relay event (together with compatriot Iryna Prasiantsova)

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