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Russian sprinter (born 1983)
Yevgeniya Andreyevna Polyakova
(Russian:
Евгения Андреевна Полякова
) (born 29 May 1983 in
Moscow
) is a Russian
sprinter
who specializes in the
100 metres
.
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Polyakova represented Russia at the
2008 Summer Olympics
in Beijing competing at the
100 metres
sprint. In her first round heat she placed first in front of
Jade Bailey
and
Sherone Simpson
in a time of 11.24 to advance to the second round. There she improved her time to 11.13 seconds, finishing second behind
Shelly-Ann Fraser
to qualify for the semi-finals. With a time of 11.38 she was unable to qualify for the final as her time was only the seventh time of her heat, causing elimination.
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Together with
Aleksandra Fedoriva
,
Yulia Gushchina
and
Yuliya Chermoshanskaya
she also took part in the
4x100 metres relay
. In their first round heat they placed second behind
Jamaica
, but in front of Germany and China. Their time of 42.87 seconds was also the second time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they qualified for the final in which they sprinted to 42.31 seconds, the first place and the gold medal. The Jamaican team did not finish due to a mistake in the baton exchange.
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In August 2016, she and her three Russian teammates were stripped of their Olympic gold medal due to a
doping violation
by Chermoshanskaya.
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The 1967?1969, 1972 and 1981 races were over
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