Ineta Radēviča (born 13 July 1981) is a retired

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, competing in the

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and

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. Radēviča won the bronze medal in the 2003 European U-23 championship. She has also won two

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championships, while competing for the

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. In the

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, she was 13th in the triple jump and 20th in the long jump. Radēviča became popular after posing nude for

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magazine before the

. She finished fifth at the

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and eighth at the

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. By the time the

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were held, she was pregnant and missed the competition. At the 2010 European Championships she won the long jump event with a new Latvian record of 6.92 metres. In 2011, she won the bronze medal at the

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in Daegu with a result of 6.76 metres. In 2017 she received a Silver medal when results were updated because of past doping offenses. At the

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she placed fourth, with Janay DeLoach finishing just one centimeter ahead of her. Afterwards she realised her dream of earning an Olympic medal was not going to happen, and she retired to devote herself to her family, ending her professional career. In May 2019, following reanalysis of her samples from the 2012 Olympics, which tested positive for

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metabolites, she was disqualified from the Olympic Games. Radēviča was coached by Evgeny Ter-Ovanesov.

Achievements

Personal bests

Personal life

She is married to Russian

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player Petr Schastlivy and has 2 sons and a daughter.

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* * * * 1981 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics European Athletics Championships medalists Latvian female long jumpers Latvian female triple jumpers Olympic athletes for Latvia People from Krāslava Nebraska Cornhuskers women's track and field athletes World Athletics Championships medalists Latvian sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in athletics NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners Wichita State Shockers women's track and field athletes NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships winners {{Latvia-athletics-bio-stub