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Viktoriya Zyabkina

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Viktoriya Zyabkina
Zyabkina at the 2017 Asian Championships
Personal information
Born (1992-09-04) 4 September 1992 (age 32)
Almaty, Kazakhstan[1]
EducationSports education
Translator/interpreter
Alma materAl-Farabi Kazakh National University
Turan University
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event100–400 m
Coached byLyubov Nikitenko[2]
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)100 m – 11.15 (2016)
200 m – 22.66 (2016)
400 m – 51.67 (2012)[3]

Viktoriya Viktorovna Zyabkina (Cyrillic: Виктория Викторовна Зябкина; born 4 September 1992) is a Kazakhstani sprinter who mostly competes in the 100 m and 200 m distances. She represented her country at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the finals. She won a silver and a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2014 and 2018 Asian Games, respectively. Between 2013 and 2017 she won five gold and one silver medals at the Asian Championships, five of them in individual events.[2]

Personal life

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Zyabkina took up athletics in 2002 following her parents. Her father Viktor Zyabkin was a member of the Soviet national 4 × 100 m relay team. Her mother Oksana Zelinskaya competed for the Soviet Union in triple jump and was an Asian champion in this event. Zyabkina debuted internationally in 2010. She has degrees in sports education from the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and in English-Russian translation from the Turan University.[2]

Competition record

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Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Kazakhstan
2009 World Youth Championships Brixen, Italy 32nd (h) 200 m 12.38
2010 Asian Junior Championships Hanoi, Vietnam 3rd 200 m 24.55
4 × 100 m relay DQ
Asian Games Guangzhou, China 18th (h) 100 m 12.07
4 × 100 m relay DNF
2011 World Championships Daegu, South Korea 31st (h) 200 m 24.09
2012 Asian Indoor Championships Hangzhou, China 3rd 60 m 7.44
World Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 32nd (h) 60 m 7.55
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom 38th (h) 200 m 23.49
2013 Asian Championships Pune, India 1st 200 m 23.62
4th 4 × 400 m relay 3:36.09
World Championships Moscow, Russia 44th (h) 200 m 24.47
2014 Asian Games Incheon, South Korea 4th 100 m 11.67
7th 200 m 23.69
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 43.90
2015 IAAF World Relays Nassau, Bahamas 6th (B) 4 × 100 m relay 44.89
Asian Championships Wuhan, China 2nd 100 m 11.34
1st 200 m 23.09
4 × 100 m relay DQ
Universiade Gwangju, South Korea 1st 100 m 11.23
1st 200 m 22.77
1st 4 × 100 m relay 44.28
World Championships Beijing, China 18th (sf) 100 m 11.19
12th (sf) 200 m 22.77
2016 Asian Indoor Championships Doha, Qatar 1st 60 m 7.27
World Indoor Championships Portland, United States 31st (h) 60 m 7.47
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 50th (h) 100 m 11.69
45th (h) 200 m 23.34
4 × 100 m relay DQ
2017 Asian Championships Bhubaneswar, India 1st 100 m 11.39
1st 200 m 23.10
1st 4 × 100 m relay 43.53
World Championships London, United Kingdom 32nd (h) 200 m 23.66
13th (h) 4 × 100 m relay 45.47
Universiade Taipei, Taiwan 4th 100 m 11.49
2nd (h) 4 × 100 m relay 44.141
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 1st 60 m 7.32
2018 Asian Indoor Championships Tehran, Iran 2nd 60 m 7.39
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:41.67
Asian Games Jakarta, Indonesia 13th (sf) 100 m 11.86
200 m DQ
3rd 4 × 100 m relay 43.82

1Disqualified in the final

References

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  1. ^ Viktoriya Zyabkina. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-04-05.
  2. ^ a b c d Viktoriya Zyabkina. asiangames2018.id
  3. ^ Viktoriya Zyabkina at World Athletics Edit this at Wikidata
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