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Yelena Vladimirovna Slesarenko, née Sivushenko (Russian: Елена Владимировна Слесаренко, born February 28, 1982 in Volgograd) is a Russian high jumper.

Yelena Slesarenko

Personal information
Nationality	Russia
Born	(1982-02-28) February 28, 1982 (age 40) Volgograd, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)[1]
Weight	54 kg (119 lb)[1]
Sport
Country	Russia
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	1st (Athens, 2004)
Highest world ranking	1st (Budapest, 2004)
Personal best(s)	High jump (outdoor): 2.06 m (2004) High jump (indoor): 2.04 m (2004)[1]
Medal record Olympics 2004 Athens High jump World Indoor Championships 2004 Budapest High jump 2006 Moscow High jump 2008 Valencia High jump

Largely unknown before 2004, she kick started the season by clearing 2.04 metres and winning the World Indoor Championships. When the outdoor season started she won the SPAR European Cup with the same result, improving her personal best from 1.97 (achieved in 2002). She continued her good form at the 2004 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal with a new national and personal record of 2.06 metres, beating the previous Olympic record, set by Stefka Kostadinova in 1996. After clearing 2.06 she made decent attempts at 2.10, which would have been a world record. She rounded off the season by winning the World Athletics Final.[2]

Injuries kept her away from most of the 2005 season, including the 2005 World Championships.

Early in 2006, however, she won the World Indoor Championships with 2.02 metres. She finished fifth in the 2006 European Athletics Championships, failing to clear 2.00 m.

At the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, Slesarenko finished fourth in the women's high jump with a jump of 2.01 meters, failing to clear 2.03 meters after three tries.[3] However, in 2016 both she and her compatriot, bronze-medalist Anna Chicherova, were disqualified from this event after failing a retest of drug samples from Beijing.[4][5]

Slesarenko retired in 2014,[6] but she was further disqualified for doping and her results cancelled.[7] She is currently a director of a winter sports academy in Volgograd, her home city.

International competitions

Representing  Russia

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Result	Notes
2002	European Indoor Championships	Vienna, Austria	5th	1.90 m
2003	European U23 Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	2nd	1.96 m	SB
	Universiade	Daegu, South Korea	3rd	1.94 m
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	1st	2.04 m	NR
	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	1st	2.06 m	OR
	World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	1st	2.01 m
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	1st	2.02 m	SB
	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	5th	1.99 m
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	4th	1.94 m
	World Cup	Athens, Greece	1st	1.97 m
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	4th	2.00 m
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	4th	1.94 m
2008	World Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	2nd	2.01 m
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	—	2.01 m	DQ (4th)[5]
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	—	1.94 m	DQ (6th)[8]
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	—	1.92 m	DQ (9th)[9]
2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	—	1.97 m	DQ (4th)[10]
	DécaNation	Nice, France	1st	1.95 m

See also

• List of doping cases in athletics
• List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women)
• List of 2004 Summer Olympics medal winners
• List of IAAF World Indoor Championships medalists (women)
• List of high jump national champions (women)
• List of Russian sportspeople
• List of people from Volgograd
• Doping at the Olympic Games
• High jump at the Olympics

References

Sporting positions
Preceded by Kajsa Bergqvist Hestrie Cloete	Women's High Jump Best Year Performance 2004	Succeeded by Kajsa Bergqvist

На других языках

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- [en] Yelena Slesarenko

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[it] Elena Slesarenko

Elena Vladimirovna Slesarenko (in russo: Елена Владимировна Слесаренко?; Volgograd, 28 febbraio 1982) è un'altista russa.

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[ru] Слесаренко, Елена Владимировна

Еле́на Влади́мировна Слесаре́нко (28 февраля 1982, Волгоград) — российская прыгунья в высоту. Заслуженный мастер спорта России. Олимпийская чемпионка 2004 года, двукратная чемпионка мира в помещении (2004, 2006).

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