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Iryna Yatchenko

1965 - Today

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Iryna Vasiliyevna Yatchenko (Belarusian: Ірына Ятчанка, Russian: Ирина Васильевна Ятченко; born 31 October 1965) is a Belarusian former discus thrower best known for winning two Olympic bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics, although she was eventually stripped of the latter medal due to a doping offence. She also became world champion at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. Her personal best is 69.14 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Minsk. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Iryna Yatchenko is the 1,907th most popular athlete (up from 2,036th in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 194th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Belarusian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Iryna Yatchenko ranks 1,907 out of 6,025. Before her are DeHart Hubbard, Romolo Catasta, Erwin Keller, Roman Šebrle, Josef Augusta, and Bjørn Paulson. After her are Stig Sjölin, Anna Dresden-Polak, Sofia Corban, Zhu Jianhua, Ambrus Nagy, and Mario Tullio Montano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Iryna Yatchenko ranks 383. Before her are Momoko Sakura, Takeshi Kusao, Dyanna Lauren, Yuji Naka, Carlos Eugênio Simon, and Soichi Noguchi. After her are Patrick Roy, Kazuo Echigo, Salou Djibo, Guy Forget, Nitzan Horowitz, and Debi Diamond.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Iryna Yatchenko ranks 185 out of 368. Before her are Darya Domracheva (1986), Valentina Stenina (1934), Rita Achkina (1938), Andrei Sannikov (1954), Max Mirnyi (1977), and Aleksandr Volodin (1919). After her are Viktor Kupreichik (1949), Andrei Zygmantovich (1962), Igor Zhelezovski (1963), Maria Kalesnikava (1982), Sergey Gotsmanov (1959), and Vladimir Makei (1958).

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Among ATHLETES In Belarus

Among athletes born in Belarus, Iryna Yatchenko ranks 8. Before her are Tamara Tyshkevich (1931), Vasily Rudenkov (1931), Nikolai Gorbachev (1948), Leonid Taranenko (1956), Darya Domracheva (1986), and Rita Achkina (1938). After her are Nadzeya Ostapchuk (1980), Andrei Mikhnevich (1976), Igor Astapkovich (1963), Aleksandr Kurlovich (1961), Ivan Tsikhan (1976), and Vyacheslav Yanovskiy (1957).

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