Anastasiya Svechnikova

Anastasiya Svechnikova (born 20 September 1992) is an Uzbekistani javelin thrower. Her personal best throw is 61.17 metres, achieved in April 2012 in Tashkent.[1]

Anastasiya Svechnikova
Personal information
Born (1992-09-20) September 20, 1992
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Height1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Country Uzbekistan
SportAthletics
Event(s)Javelin
Updated on 11 August 2012.

Biography

She competed at the 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final.[1] At 15 years and 334 days she was the youngest track and field athlete competing at the 2008 Olympics.[2]

Born in Tashkent,[3] she finished twelfth at the 2007 World Youth Championships, ninth at the 2008 World Junior Championships and won the gold medal at the 2009 World Youth Championships. She won the gold medal at the 2010 Asian Junior Athletics Championships, beating Sui Liping to the title.[4]

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London (Great Britain) she threw a 51.27 m javelin and took only eighteenth place in the qualification and left the tournament.[5]

In 2017, she completed her sports career.

References
  1. Anastasiya Svechnikova at World Athletics
  2. "Athletics at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 26 February 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
  3. "Aleksey Bazarov". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
  4. 14th Asian Junior Athletics Championship 2010 1-4 July, Hanoi, Vietnam – RESULT- Day2 Archived 2010-07-09 at the Wayback Machine. Asian Athletics Association. Retrieved on 2010-08-28.
  5. "Анастасия Свечникова". uzathletics.uz. Archived from the original on 2021-08-11. Retrieved 2022-08-12.


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