Ekaterina Koneva (; born 25 September 1988) is a Russian track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump. She is a triple-time gold medalist at the Summer Universiade. Her personal best for the event is .
Career Born in Khabarovsk in the Russian SFSR, she started out as a sprint and long jump specialist. She failed an in-competition doping test in February 2007 for excess testosterone and was banned from competition for two years.Ekaterina Koneva. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2013-07-29. She returned from the ban in 2009 and set personal bests of 11.76 seconds for the 100 metres and 23.89 seconds for the 200 metres. She switched to focus on the triple jump in 2010 and won the Russian under-23 title and came second at the under-23 Spartakiad.Ekaterina Koneva. RusAthletics. Retrieved on 2013-07-29.
Koneva cleared fourteen metres for the first time in 2011 setting an indoor best of 14.18 metres at the Russian Indoor Athletics Championships. Two personal bests came in Bryansk, where she had 6.70 m in the long jump and 14.46 m in the triple jump.Ekaterina Koneva. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-07-29. She placed third at the Russian Athletics Championships before going on to take the gold medal at the Universiade. At the start of 2012 she cleared a personal best of 14.60 m – a mark which ranked her tenth in the world for the triple jump that year.2012 World Comprehensive List – Women . Track and Field News. Retrieved on 2013-07-29. She came third at the Russian indoor championships but fared less well outdoors, managing only tenth at the Russian Championships.
Further improvements came in 2013: she won at the Russian team championships with a best of 14.80 m and she was runner-up at the 2013 European Team Championships.Maryanchik, Natalia (2013-05-27). Special K stars at the Russian Team Champs; Kupina, Koneva and Klishina provide serial thrills. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-07-29. She improved this by two centimetres to defend her triple jump title at the Universiade in Kazan, setting a Games record in the process.van Kuijen, Hans (2013-07-12). Chernova shows great form with Heptathlon win at World University Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-07-29. She was also victorious at the Brothers Znamensky Memorial – one of the top annual meets in Russia. She claimed her first win on the IAAF Diamond League circuit with a jump of 14.52 m at the London Grand Prix.
International competitions 2011UniversiadeShenzhen, China1stTriple jump14.25 m2013UniversiadeKazan, Russia1stTriple jump14.82 mWorld ChampionshipsMoscow, Russia2ndTriple jump14.81 m2014World Indoor ChampionshipsSopot, Poland1stTriple jump14.46 mEuropean ChampionshipsZürich, Switzerland 2ndTriple jump14.69 m2015European Indoor ChampionshipsPrague, Czech Republic 1stTriple jump14.69 mUniversiadeGwangju, South Korea1stTriple jump14.60 mWorld ChampionshipsBeijing, China7thTriple jump14.37 mMilitary World GamesMungyeong, South Korea1stLong jump6.39 m1stTriple jump14.28 m
See also List of doping cases in athletics List of World Athletics Championships medalists (women) List of European Athletics Championships medalists (women) List of European Athletics Indoor Championships medalists (women) List of IAAF World Indoor Championships medalists (women)
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