Tatyana Kotova

Tatyana Vladimirovna Kotova (Russian: Татьяна Владимировна Котова, born 11 December 1976) is a track and field athlete who competed for Russia in the long jump. Her personal best jump of 7.42 m at Annecy in 2002, is the best distance achieved by a female long jumper in the 21st century (as of 2023).

For the Russian beauty queen, see Tatiana Kotova.

Tatyana Kotova
Tatyana Kotova (right) won bronze medal in 2007 World Championships.
Personal information
Born (1976-12-11) 11 December 1976
Kokand, Uzbek SSR
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Weight59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Country Russia
SportWomen's athletics
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney Long jump
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Long jump
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2001 Edmonton Long jump
Silver medal – second place 2003 Paris Long jump
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Osaka Long jump

Kotova won bronze medals in the event at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. She won three consecutive silver medals at the World Championships in Athletics from 2001 to 2005, also taking bronze in 2007. She had even greater success indoors, where she won the World Indoor Championships on three occasions, in 1999, 2003 and 2006, as well as finishing as runner-up in 2001 and 2004. She was later stripped of her 2005 World silver and 2006 World Indoor title. Her other titles include wins at the 2002 European Championships and the 2002 IAAF World Cup. She was third at the 2001 Goodwill Games and was the jackpot winner of the 2000 IAAF Golden League.

Life and career

Kotova was born in Kokand, Uzbek SSR, and grew up in Taboshar, Tajik SSR. She started to take up track and field in 1995, previously also practicing volleyball and basketball. Training in Barnaul, West Siberia, Kotova won a gold medal at the European U23 Championships in Turku, Finland, and in 1999 got a gold medal at the World Indoors in Maebashi. She was injured in a car accident in August 2000,[1] and went on to finish fourth less than two months later at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

Doping

Kotova managed to both win and lose medals due to doping. In the 2000 Olympics, she had initially finished fourth. She was promoted to the bronze medal nine years later, after original bronze medal winner Marion Jones admitted usage of performance-enhancing drugs during the Olympics.[2] However, in 2013, samples from the 2005 World Championships were retested and Kotova was found to have been doping.[3] She was stripped of her silver medal at the World Championships, and also of the gold on the 2005 IAAF World Athletics Final, with Anju Bobby George promoted to first.[4]

International competitions
Representing  Russia
YearCompetitionVenuePositionResultNotes
1997 European U23 Championships Turku, Finland 1st 6.57 m wind: -1.1 m/s
1999 World Indoor Championships Maebashi, Japan 1st 6.86 m
World Championships Seville, Spain 13th (q) 6.62 m
2000 Olympic Games Sydney, Australia 3rd 6.83 m
Golden League Various Jackpot winner Long jump
2001 World Indoor Championships Lisbon, Portugal 2nd 6.98 m
World Championships Edmonton, Canada 2nd 7.01 m
Goodwill Games Brisbane, Australia 3rd 6.84 m
2002 European Championships Munich, Germany 1st 6.85 m
IAAF World Cup Madrid, Spain 1st 6.85 m
2003 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 1st 6.84 m
World Championships Paris, France 2nd 6.74 m
World Athletics Final Monte Carlo, Monaco 2nd 6.92 m
2004 World Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 2nd 6.93 m
Olympic Games Athens, Greece 3rd 7.05 m
World Athletics Final Monte Carlo, Monaco 3rd 6.65 m
2005 World Championships Helsinki, Finland DQ (2nd) 6.79 m Doping
World Athletics Final Monte Carlo, Monaco DQ (1st) 6.83 m Doping
2006 World Indoor Championships Moscow, Russia DQ (1st) 7.00 m Doping
2007 World Championships Osaka, Japan 3rd 6.90 m
2008 Olympic Games Beijing, China 13th (q) 6.57 m
2010 European Championships Barcelona, Spain 18th (q) 6.48 m

See also

References
  1. OLYMPIC DOUBTS FOR TATYANA KOTOVA
  2. I.O.C. Redistributes Jones’s Medals and Retires One
  3. "Russia should not hold World Championship – Jade Johnson". BBC. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  4. 2005 World Athletics: Kotova disqualified, Anju's silver turns into gold
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