Yelena Vladimirovna Parfyonova (; born 26 January 1974 in

North Kazakhstan Region North Kazakhstan Region (; ) is a region of Kazakhstan, with a population of 522,171. Its capital is Petropavl, with a population of 221,907 people. It is the only region of Kazakhstan in which ethnic Kazakhs don't make up a majority. History ...

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) is a retired

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down the tr ...

er. Her personal best jump is 14.33 metres, achieved in June 2008 in

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. She won the gold medal at the 2000 Asian Championships, the silver medal at the 2002 Asian Championships and finished fourth at the 2005 Asian Championships.Asian Championships
- GBR Athletics She also competed at the

2000 Olympic Games The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ...

, the 2005 World Championships, the 2006 World Indoor Championships, the 2007 World Championships and the

2008 Olympic Games The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fr ...

without reaching the final.

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* 1974 births Living people Kazakhstani female triple jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Kazakhstan Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games athletes for Kazakhstan Kazakhstani people of Russian descent People from North Kazakhstan Region Asian Athletics Championships winners Asian Athletics Championships medalists Asian Indoor Athletics Championships winners {{Kazakhstan-athletics-bio-stub