Maryna Arzamasova

Maryna Arzamasova

Arzamasova in 2013
Personal information
Nationality	Belarusian
Born	(1987-12-17) 17 December 1987 (age 37) Minsk, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	800 metres
Club	Minsk
Achievements and titles
Personal best	800 m: 1:57.54 (2015)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Belarus World Championships 2015 Beijing 800 m World Indoor Championships 2014 Sopot 800 m European Championships 2014 Zürich 800 m 2012 Helsinki 800 m European Indoor Championships 2013 Gothenburg 800 m

Maryna Aliaksandrauna Arzamasova (née Katowich, Belarusian: Марына Аляксандраўна Арзамасава (Катовіч), Russian: Марина Александровна Арзамасова; born 17 December 1987) is a Belarusian middle-distance runner.^[1]

Career and achievements

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's 800 metres. She won a bronze medal at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships in the 800 metres. In August 2014, Arzamasova won 2014 European Athletics Championships in the 800 metres in a European leading time of 1:58.15.^[2] One year later she became world champion in the 800 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing.^[3]

In 2019, she won the silver medal in the team event at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus.^[4]

Family

Her mother, Ravilya Agletdinova was also a middle-distance runner and won the 1500 m European title in 1986 – an achievement which Arzamasava repeated.^[5]

Suspension

In August 2019, Arzamasova was provisionally suspended after testing positive for the banned steroid-like substance LGD-4033.^[6]

References

1. "Maryna Arzamasava". 2012 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
2. "- YouTube". YouTube.
3. Dyachkova, Elena (29 August 2015). "Report: Women's 800m Final - IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015". International Association of Athletics Federations. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
4. "Team results" (PDF). 2019 European Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 October 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
5. Mills, Steven (2014-08-26). European Championships: Women’s events facts and stats. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved on 2015-09-17.
6. "Former 800m world champion Arzamasova gets provisional ban for doping". Reuters. 2019-08-27. Archived from the original on August 27, 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-01.

External links

• Maryna Arzamasova at World Athletics