Larisa Peleshenko
Larisa Alexandrovna Peleshenko (Russian: Лариса Александровна Пелешенко), née Agapova (born February 29, 1964 in Slantsy, Leningrad Oblast) is a retired Russian shot putter best known for winning the Olympic silver medal in 2000. In her early career she won European Indoor silver medals, but in February 1995 she received a four-year drugs ban. Having originally won the 1995 World Indoor Championships, she lost the medal.[1] She won the 2001 Indoor Championships and finished fourth at the World Championships the same year, and retired at the end of the season.
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| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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International competitions
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| 1988 | European Indoor Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 2nd | Shot put | 20.23 m |
| 1990 | Goodwill Games | Seattle, Washington | 5th | Shot put | 18.67 m |
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| 1993 | World Championships | Stuttgart, Germany | 9th | Shot put | 19.22 m |
| 1994 | Goodwill Games | St. Petersburg, Russia | 5th | Shot put | 19.05 m |
| European Indoor Championships | Paris, France | 2nd | Shot put | 19.16 m | |
| European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 5th | Shot put | 19.01 m | |
| 2000 | European Indoor Championships | Ghent, Belgium | 1st | Shot put | 20.15 m |
| Summer Olympics | Sydney, Australia | 2nd | Shot put | 19.92 m | |
| 2001 | Goodwill Games | Brisbane, Australia | 1st | Shot put | 18.65 m |
| World Indoor Championships | Lisbon, Portugal | 1st | Shot put | 19.84 m | |
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References
- Mark Butler (ed.), "DOPING VIOLATIONS AT IAAF WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS", IAAF Statistics Book – World Indoor Championships SOPOT 2014 (PDF), IAAF, pp. 47–48, retrieved 27 September 2015
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