Irina Velihanova (born 17 March 1996) is a Turkmenistan

track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

athlete. In 2019, she competed in the women's 100 metres hurdles event at the

2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global sport of athletics, athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athleti ...

held in Doha, Qatar. She did not qualify to compete in the semi-finals. In 2018, she won the bronze medal in the women's pentathlon event at the

2018 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships The 2018 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was the eighth edition of the international indoor athletics event between Asian nations. It took place at the Aftab Enghelab Complex in Tehran, Iran, between 1 and 3 February. Kazakhstan topped the m ...

held in Tehran, Iran. In 2019, she competed in the

women's heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek ἑπτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hep ...

event at the

2019 Asian Athletics Championships The 2019 Asian Athletics Championships was the 23rd edition of the Asian Athletics Championships. It was held from 21 to 24 April 2019 at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar. During the closing ceremony of the 22nd Asian Athletics Cha ...

held in Doha, Qatar.

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* Living people 1996 births Place of birth missing (living people) Turkmenistan female athletes World Athletics Championships athletes for Turkmenistan 21st-century Turkmenistan sportswomen 21st-century Turkmenistan people {{Turkmenistan-athletics-bio-stub