 Tatyana Kotova (right) won bronze medal in 2007 World Championships. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1976-12-11)11 December 1976 (age 48) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft11+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Women'sathletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tatyana Vladimirovna Kotova (Russian:Татьяна Владимировна Котова, born 11 December 1976) is atrack and field athlete who competed for Russia in thelong jump. Her personal best jump of 7.42 m atAnnecy in 2002, is the best distance achieved by a female long jumper in the 21st century (as of 2023).
Kotova wonbronze medals in the event at the2000 and2004 Olympic Games. She won three consecutivesilver medals at theWorld Championships in Athletics from 2001 to 2005, also taking bronze in 2007. She had even greater success indoors, where she won theWorld Indoor Championships on three occasions, in 1999, 2003 and 2006, as well as finishing as runner-up in 2001 and 2004. She was later stripped of her 2005 World silver and 2006 World Indoor title. Her other titles include wins at the2002 European Championships and the2002 IAAF World Cup. She was third at the2001 Goodwill Games and was the jackpot winner of the2000 IAAF Golden League.
Kotova was born inKokand,Uzbek SSR, and grew up inTaboshar,Tajik SSR. She started to take up track and field in 1995, previously also practicing volleyball and basketball. Training inBarnaul,West Siberia, Kotova won a gold medal at the European U23 Championships in Turku, Finland, and in 1999 got a gold medal at the World Indoors in Maebashi. She was injured in a car accident in August 2000,[1] and went on to finish fourth less than two months later at the2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.[citation needed]
Kotova managed to both win and lose medals due to doping. In the 2000 Olympics, she had initially finished fourth. She was promoted to the bronze medal nine years later, after original bronze medal winnerMarion Jones admitted usage of performance-enhancing drugs during the Olympics.[2] However, in 2013, samples from the 2005 World Championships were retested and Kotova was found to have been doping.[3] She was stripped of her silver medal at the World Championships, and also of the gold on the2005 IAAF World Athletics Final, withAnju Bobby George promoted to first.[4]
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| Preceded by | Women's Long Jump Best Year Performance 2001–2002 2006 | Succeeded by |
European Athletics Championships champions in women'slong jump | |
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