Elena Chebanu
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Nationality | Ukraine (until 2015) Azerbaijan (since 2015) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 4 January 1981 Kharkiv, Ukraine[1] | (age 43)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Paralympic athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | T12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elena Chebanu (Ukrainian: Олена Чебану; born 4 January 1981) is a Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. She was born in Ukraine and initially took part in regular sprint events, but since 2015 competes for Azerbaijan in the visually impaired category T12. She won the silver medal in the 100 m – T12 event at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[2]
In the 200 metres she finished seventh at the 2006 European Championships and competed without reaching the final at the 2007 World Championships.[3] In the 100 metres she won the silver medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade. Here she also won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m relay.
She also competed in relay at the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final.[4] At the 2007 World Championships the Ukrainian team failed to finish the race.[5] Her personal best times are 7.46 seconds in the 60 metres (indoor), achieved in January 2007 in Zaporizhzhya; 11.42 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in June 2006 in Kyiv; and 22.97 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in June 2006 in Málaga.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Харьковчанка Елена Чебану показала свое лучшее время в беге на 200 метров. atn.ua (29 August 2007)
- ^ Elena Chebanu Archived 22 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
- ^ a b Elena Chebanu at World Athletics
- ^ "Women 4x100m Relay Athletics World Championship 2009 Berlin (GER)". Todor Krastev. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
- ^ "4x100 Metres Relay – W Heats". IAAF. 1 September 2007. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
External links
[edit]- Elena Chebanu at the International Paralympic Committee
- Elena Chebanu at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Athletes from Kharkiv
- Ukrainian female sprinters
- Azerbaijani female sprinters
- Ukrainian emigrants to Azerbaijan
- Naturalized citizens of Azerbaijan
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic silver medalists for Azerbaijan
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Ukraine
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Ukraine
- European Games competitors for Azerbaijan
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 European Games
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Paralympic athletes for Azerbaijan
- Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade
- Ukrainian Athletics Championships winners
- 21st-century Ukrainian sportswomen
- European athletics biography stubs
- Azerbaijani sportspeople stubs
- Ukrainian athletics biography stubs