Mariya Ryemyen (; born 2 August 1987,

Makiivka Makiivka (, ), formerly Dmytriivsk () until 1931, is an industrial city in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, located east from Donetsk. The two cities are practically a conurbation. It has a population of It hosts the administration of Makiivka ...

) is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the

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. Ryemyen was part (with Nataliya Pohrebnyak,

Olesya Povh Olesya Povh ( (''Olesya Ivanivna Povkh''); born 18 October 1987) is a Ukrainian former sprint athlete who specialized in the 100 metres. Her personal best times include 11.08 seconds in the 100 m, achieved in June 2012. She is an Olympic G ...

and

Yelizaveta Bryzhina Yelyzaveta Viktorivna Bryzhina (; born 18 November 1989, in Voroshilovgrad) is a Ukrainian sprint athlete specialising in the 100 metres. Her personal best times are 11.42 seconds in the 100 m (outdoor), achieved in May 2016 in Kirovograd; an ...

) of the Ukrainian women's 4 × 100 m that won gold during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29 – the fastest time in the world that year.

Career

She finished seventh at the 2009 European U23 Championships. She also competed at the 2010 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final. In the

4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the indiv ...

she competed at the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final. At the 2009 European U23 Championships the Ukrainian team failed to finish the race. Her personal best times are 7.15 seconds in the

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(indoor), achieved in March 2011 in

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; and 11.27 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in June 2011 in

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. In 2011, she competed for Fenerbahçe Athletics in

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. At the 2012 Olympics Maria represented the

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and the sports club "Ukraina". At the

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she and her teammates

Hrystyna Stuy Khrystyna Stuy (; born 3 February 1988 in Uhryniv) is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres. Career Stuy competed in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final. At the 2009 Euro ...

and Yelizaveta Bryzghina took the bronze medals in the

by setting a new national record. She served a two-year doping ban for the use of a prohibited substance,

methandienone Metandienone, also known as methandienone or methandrostenolone and sold under the brand name Dianabol (D-Bol) among others, is an androgen and anabolic steroid (AAS) medication which is mostly no longer prescribed. It is also used non-medically ...

. The ban lasted from 10 January 2014 to 2 March 2016.IAAF list of athletes suspended for doping
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References

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