Alena Vasilyeuna Abramchuk, née Kapiets (; ; born 14 February 1988) Абрамчук (Копец) Елена . Sport Brest. Retrieved on 2015-12-02. is a Belarusian track and field athlete who competes in the shot put. She was the bronze medallist at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships. Her personal best is , set in 2013.
Career She began competing at national level as a teenager and made her international debut at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics, competing in both the shot put and discus throw events.Alena Abramchuk. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-12-02. Her first international medals followed in 2007 with silver medals in the shot put at the 2007 European Athletics Junior Championships and in the under-23 section at the 2007 European Cup Winter Throwing. She was also fifth at the Military World Games.Alena Abramchuk. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2015-12-02. She began attending A.S. Pushkin Brest State University, studying in the physical education department.March 8 Present from Elena Kopets. Brest State University. Retrieved on 2015-12-02.
Abramchuk focused more on shot put after 2007 and repeated her under-23 winter silver medal with a personal best of at the 2008 European Cup Winter Throwing, then again at the 2009 edition. She improved her best to that season and claimed a trio of bronze medals at the European Team Championships, Summer Universiade and the European Athletics U23 Championships. She added two centimetres to her best in 2010, but did not compete internationally. She established herself among the world's top throwers at the start of 2011, throwing a best of in Minsk, which ranked her in the top twenty shot putters that season. 2011 World Comprehensive List - Women . Track & Field News (2012). Retrieved on 2015-12-02.
Abramchuk won her first national title indoors in February 2011 then claimed her first international win at 2011 European Cup Winter Throwing, beating France's Jessica Cérival. She made her debut on the IAAF Diamond League circuit in Shanghai and ranked fifth at the Universiade. Another best of the following February saw her again ranked in the world's top twenty in 2012.2012 World Comprehensive List - Women . Track & Field News (2013). Retrieved on 2015-12-02. She failed to match this form in major competition, being eliminated at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships and placing fifth at the 2012 European Cup Winter Throwing.
She threw beyond nineteen metres for the first time in January 2013 with a mark of . A bronze medal at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships – her first podium finish at a major championship – marked a new high. She was the national champion indoors and outdoors that year and regularly threw beyond eighteen metres in competition. She placed second to Russia's Yevgeniya Kolodko at the 2013 European Cup Winter Throwing and had several top five finishes on the 2013 IAAF Diamond League circuit. Her best that year was , set in Minsk, and she was a finalist at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics.
In the 2014 season she was eliminated in the qualifiers of the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, but made the final of the 2014 European Athletics Championships, coming in ninth place. At the 2014 European Cup Winter Throwing she was again beaten by Kolodko of Russia. She came close to another continental bronze at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships, beating narrowly beaten into fourth by Radoslava Mavrodieva. She set a best in the discus of in taking her first national title in that year, but missed the 2015 World Championships in Athletics.
National titles Belarusian Athletics Championships Shot put: 2013 Discus throw: 2015 Belarusian Indoor Championships Shot put: 2011, 2013, 2014
International competitions 2006World Junior ChampionshipsBeijing, China17th (q)Shot put14.77 m19th (q)Discus throw44.77 m2007European Cup Winter Throwing (U23)Yalta, Ukraine2ndShot put15.74 mEuropean Junior ChampionshipsHengelo, Netherlands2ndShot put16.10 m14thDiscus throw45.84 mMilitary World GamesHyderabad, India5thShot put14.91 m2008European Cup Winter Throwing (U23)Split, Croatia2ndShot put16.69 m2009European Cup Winter Throwing (U23)Los Realejos, Spain2ndShot put16.36 mEuropean Team Championships 1st LeagueBergen, Norway3rdShot put17.08 mUniversiadeBelgrade, Serbia3rdShot put17.48 mEuropean U23 ChampionshipsKaunas, Lithuania3rdShot put17.72 m2011European Indoor ChampionshipsParis, France9th (q)Shot put17.11 mEuropean Cup Winter ThrowingSofia, Bulgaria1stShot put17.71UniversiadeShenzhen, China5thShot put17.07 m2012World Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey9th (q)Shot put17.80 m2013European Indoor ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden3rdShot put18.85 mEuropean Cup Winter ThrowingCastellón de la Plana, Spain2ndShot put18.18 mWorld ChampionshipsMoscow, Russia12thShot put17.70 m2014World Indoor ChampionshipsSopot, Poland10th (q)Shot put17.73 mEuropean Cup Winter ThrowingLeiria, Portugal2ndShot put18.58 mEuropean ChampionshipsZurich, Switzerland9thShot put17.65 m2015European Indoor ChampionshipsPrague, Czech Republic4thShot put17.63 mEuropean Cup Winter ThrowingLeiria, Portugal5thShot put17.11 m
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