Elena Viktorovna Karpova () (born 14 June 1980 in

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) is a Russian

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player. She was drafted into the WNBA by the Washington Mystics in 2001. She later played for several Russian teams and one in the Czech Republic before ending her basketball career in 2009. Karpova competed as a power forward for the Russian National Team at the

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, winning the bronze medal.

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