Olha Saladukha

Olha Saladukha

Saladuha at the 2013 World Championships
Personal information
Born	(1983-06-04) 4 June 1983 (age 41) Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Country	Ukraine
Sport	Athletics
Event	Triple jump
Medal record Olympic Games 2012 London Triple jump World Championships 2011 Daegu Triple jump 2013 Moscow Triple jump World Indoor Championships 2014 Sopot Triple jump Diamond League Final 2010 Triple jump 2011 Triple jump 2012 Triple jump 2013 Triple jump 2014 Triple jump European Championships 2010 Barcelona Triple jump 2012 Helsinki Triple jump 2014 Zürich Triple jump European Indoor Championships 2013 Gothenburg Triple jump 2019 Glasgow Triple jump Universiade 2007 Bangkok Triple jump 2005 İzmir Triple jump Continental Cup 2010 Split Triple jump 2014 Marrakech Triple jump European Cup 2006 Málaga Triple jump 2008 Annecy Triple jump European Athletics Team Championships 2010 Bergen Triple jump 2011 Stockholm Triple jump 2013 Gateshead Triple jump 2014 Braunschweig Triple jump

Olha Saladuha (Ukrainian: Ольга Валеріївна Саладуха, born 4 June 1983) is a Ukrainian former triple jumper. Since the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election she is a member of the Ukrainian parliament.^[1]

Biography

Saladuha took up athletics at the same club as Sergey Bubka, originally as a sprint hurdler before switching to triple jumping. In 1998 she set a European age-group record of 13.32 meters. Subsequently, she finished fifth at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics. After struggling with injuries for the next two years and briefly retiring from the sport, she made steady progress, finishing fourth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and winning the gold at the 2007 Summer Universiade with a personal best of 14.79 meters.^[2]

At the end of 2008 Saladuha took a year out of competition to start a family, giving birth to a daughter, Diana. She subsequently returned to competition in 2010, winning gold at the European Championships in Barcelona. The following year she set a new personal best at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon, where she jumped 14.98 meters, and she then went on to take the gold medal at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu.^[2]

She won the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, and was European champion in the women's triple jump in 2010, 2012 and 2014.^[3]

Saladukha's personal best jump is 14.99 meters, achieved on 29 June 2012 in Helsinki at the European Championships. She also has a personal best of 6.37 metres in the long jump.

She is married to racing cyclist Denys Kostyuk.^[2]

Saladukha took part in the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election with the party Servant of the People.^[4] She was elected to parliament.^[1]

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Ukraine
1999	World Youth Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	9th	12.76 m
2001	European Junior Championships	Grosseto, Italy	9th	13.07 m
2002	World Junior Championships	Kingston, Jamaica	5th	13.17 m (wind: +0.4 m/s)
2005	European U23 Championships	Erfurt, Germany	4th	13.93 m (wind: +0.2 m/s)
	Universiade	İzmir, Turkey	2nd	13.96 m
2006	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	4th	14.38 m
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	6th	14.04 m
	World Cup	Athens, Greece	6th	14.16 m
2007	Universiade	Bangkok, Thailand	1st	14.79 m (PB)
	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	7th	14.60 m
2008	World Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	6th	14.32 m
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	9th	14.70 m
2010	Continental Cup	Split, Croatia	2nd	14.70 m
	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	1st	14.81 m (EL)
2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	1st	14.94 m
2012	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	1st	14.99 m (WL, PB)
	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	3rd	14.79 m
2013	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	1st	14.88 m (WL, NR)
	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	3rd	14.65 m
2014	World Indoor Championships	Sopot, Poland	2nd	14.45 m
	European Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	1st	14.73 m
	Continental Cup	Marrakech, Morocco	3rd	14.26 m
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	6th	14.41 m
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	6th	14.23 m
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	18th (q)	13.97 m
2018	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	13th (q)	14.04 m
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	3rd	14.47 m
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	5th	14.52 m
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	20th (q)	13.91 m

Personal bests

Type	Event	Time	Date	Place	Notes
Outdoor	Long Jump	6.37 m	14 May 2006	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	Triple Jump	14.99 m	29 June 2012	Helsinki, Finland
Indoor	Long Jump	6.31 m	22 February 2006	Sumy, Ukraine
	Triple Jump	14.88 m	29 June 2013	Gothenburg, Sweden

• All information taken from IAAF profile.

See also

• Triple jump - Women's seasons best
• List of members of the parliament of Ukraine, 2019–24

References

1. CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
   (in Russian) Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019)
2. Mulkeen, Jon (2 September 2011). "Inspired by Lebedeva, Saladuha continues post-childbirth return with second big title". International Association of Athletics Federations. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
3. "Les relais suisses du 4 x 100 m voient leur rêve s'envoler" [Swiss Relay 4 x 100m see their dream evaporate]. Tribune de Genève (in French). 17 August 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
4. "Перша сотня партії Зеленського: без "95 кварталу", з олімпійськими чемпіонами і ЗеКомандою". 9 June 2019.

External links

• Olha Saladukha at World Athletics
• Verkhovna Rada (in Ukrainian)