.jpg) Pyhyda at the 2014 DécaNation | |
| Personal information | |
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| Born | (1981-01-30)30 January 1981 (age 44) |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 60 kg (130 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | 4 × 400 m Relay |
Medal record | |
Nataliya Pyhyda (Ukrainian:Наталія Пигида; born 30 January 1981) is a Ukrainiantrack and fieldsprinter who specializes in the200 and400 metres. Her personal best times are 22.82 seconds (2008) and 50.62 seconds (2015), respectively.
As a junior, she finished sixth at the2000 World Junior Championships. Her personal best at the time was 52.87 seconds, achieved in August 2000 inKyiv. She improved it to 52.76 seconds in July 2003 in Kyiv.[1] At the2003 World Championships she competed in the 4 × 400 metres relay without reaching the final.[2] She finished fifth in the 200 metres event at the2004 World Indoor Championships.[1] At the2004 Olympic Games she again competed in the 4 × 400 metres relay without reaching the final.[3] In 2004, she greatly improved her personal bests in both her events, running the 200 metres in 23.04 seconds in July inMadrid and the 400 metres in 51.44 seconds in July inYalta.[1]
The seasons 2005 and 2006 went by without personal bests in her main events, only the60 metres (7.25 seconds, Kyiv, February 2005) and the100 metres (11.50 seconds, Kyiv, July 2005).[1] At the2005 European Indoor Championships the Ukrainian relay team finished fourth.[4] She also finished fifth in the individual event.[1] The relay team finished fifth at the2005 World Championships.[5] At the2005 Summer Universiade she finished fourth in the 200 metres and won a bronze medal in the relay.[6] At the2006 European Championships she reached the semi-final of the individual event,[1] and finished sixth in the relay.[7] At the end of the season she was chosen for Europe's relay team at the2006 IAAF World Cup. The team finished fourth.[8]
In 2007, she failed to run a single sub-24 or sub-52 second race.[1] She failed to reach the relay final at the2007 World Championships,[9] but won a relay gold medal at the2007 Summer Universiade.[10] She reached the 400 metres semi-final at the2008 World Indoor Championships, and at the 2008 Olympics she reached the semi-final of the200 metres,[1] was disqualified in the4 × 100 metres relay,[11] and failed to reach the final in the4 × 400 metres relay.[12]
In the summer of 2008 she had smashed her 200 best time, running in 22.82 seconds in Kyiv in June.[1] In 2009, she won the silver medal at the2009 European Indoor Championships. With 51.44 seconds she equalled her personal best time from the outdoor track. She further improved to 51.38 seconds in June 2009 inSofia.[1] In July 2009, however, shetested positive for the anabolic steroidstanozolol after a competition inReims.[13] She was suspended from the sport from August 2009 to August 2011.[1] She competed again at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[14] She was part of the Ukrainian team that won the silver medal at the2014 European Athletics Championship.[15]
European Athletics U23 Championships champions in women's4 × 100 metres relay | |
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† denotes athletes who took part in heats only |
