Nataliya Dobrynska

Medal record
Nataliya Dobrynska at the 2007 World Championships
Women’s athletics
Competitor for  Ukraine
Olympic Games
Gold	2008 Beijing	Heptathlon
European Championships
Silver	2010 Barcelona	Heptathlon
World Indoor Championships
Silver	2004 Hungary	Pentathlon
Silver	2010 Doha	Pentathlon
European Indoor Championships
Bronze	2005 Madrid	Pentathlon

Nataliya Dobrynska (Ukrainian: Наталя Добринська) (born May 29, 1982 in Yakushyntsi, Vinnytsia Oblast) is a Ukrainian heptathlete. She is the 2008 Olympic champion and also holds the Heptathlon best in the Shot Put.

She finished 6th in the heptathlon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. She also competed in the 2004 Olympics, finishing 8th.

She won the silver medal in the pentathlon at the 2004 World Indoor Championships and the bronze medal at the 2005 European Indoor Championships. At the 2007 European Indoor Championships she finished fifth.

She won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, beating teammate Lyudmila Blonska by 33 points. Despite being one of the favourites in the World Championships in Berlin 2009, Dobrynska finished fourth just missing out on the bronze medal.

Dobrynska competed at the 2010 Hypo-Meeting in May, but she was in sub-par form and managed only a score of 6023 for seventh place (over 600 points behind Jessica Ennis' winning mark).^[1][2] In spite of this she proved herself as a contender to the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in July. After the first day, Dobrynska ran a 200 m best of 24.23 seconds and was in second place – 110 points behind the Ennis, who led the competition.^[3] The following day she scored a best in the javelin (49.25 m) and was 18 points behind Ennis with one event remaining. She finished the competition with an 800 m run of 2:12.06, another personal best. Her total score of 6778 points was her best ever performance and beyond Carolina Klüft's championship record. However, Ennis took the gold, also setting a personal best, leaving Dobrynska with the silver medal – her first podium finish at the European Athletics Championships.^[4][5]

She returned to competition at the 2010 Décastar meeting in September and was the runner-up behind Tatyana Chernova, having a total of 6309 points from the event.^[6]

References

1. ^ Sampaolo, Diego (2010-05-30). Clay and Ennis beat the rain to take Götzis titles – IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-12.
2. ^ 36th Hypo-Meeting. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-12.
3. ^ Jessica Ennis leads after European heptathlon day one . BBC Sport (2010-07-30). Retrieved on 2010-08-12.
4. ^ Ennis smashes championship record in epic finale. European Athletics (2010-07-31). Retrieved on 2010-08-12.
5. ^ Jessica Ennis claims European heptathlon gold. BBC Sport (2010-07-31). Retrieved on 2010-08-12.
6. ^ van Kuijen, Hans (2010-09-19). Suarez and Chernova prevail in Talence - IAAF World Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-19.

External links

• IAAF profile for Nataliya Dobrynska

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Name	Dobrynska, Nataliya
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Date of birth	1982-05-29
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