Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Israeli-Ukrainian triple and long jumper}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1989|9|25|df=y}}

| birth_place = [[Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi]], [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]

| height = {{height|m=1.79}}

| weight = {{convert|63|kg|lb|abbr=on}}

{{MedalCompetition|[[European Games]]}}

{{MedalBronze|[[2015 European Games|2015 Baku]]|[[Athletics at the 2015 European Games|Mixed Team]]}}

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She established a personal best in August 2015 of 14.78 meters (m) in the triple jump while winning the silver medal at the [[2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump|2015 World Championships in Athletics]]. She competed for her native [[Ukraine]] at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]] in the [[Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's triple jump|women’s triple jump event]], coming in fourth with a jump of 14.56 m.<ref name="london2012.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/knyazyeva-hanna-1074650/|title=Medal Count – Olympic Results & Medalists – IOC|publisher=london2012.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730164114/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/knyazyeva-hanna-1074650/|archive-date=2012-07-30}}</ref>

 

===For Israel===

 

At the 77th Israeli Athletics Championships in early July 2013, she established a new [[Israeli records in athletics|Israeli record]] in winning the women’s triple jump with a distance of 14.50 m.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jpost.com/Sports/Lenskiy-Malka-win-100-meter-dash-318672|title=Lenskiy, Malka win 100-meter dash|work=The Jerusalem Post|date=4 July 2013|author=Allon Sinai}}</ref> Knyazyeva-Minenko won a silver medal at the 2013 IAAF Diamond League competition in Paris, jumping 14.58 m in the triple jump.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sportingalert.com/bolt-fires-worldleading-1973-paris-diamond-league/|title=Bolt fires to world-leading 19.73 at Paris Diamond League|publisher=SportingAlert.com|date=6 July 2013}}</ref> At the [[Sainsbury's Anniversary Games]] Diamond League competition in London on 26 July 2013, she won a [[bronze medal]] in the triple jump with a distance of 14.29 m, behind Jamaican [[Kimberly Williams (athlete)|Kimberly Williams]] and Russian [[Ekaterina Koneva]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130727/sports/sports1.html|title=King Bolt still reigns|work=Jamaica Gleaner|date=27 July 2013|author=André Lowe}}</ref>

At the 14th [[IAAF World Championships in Athletics]] at [[Luzhniki Stadium]] in Moscow on 15 August 2013, at age 23 in her first major event representing Israel, Knyazyeva-Minenko came in 6th in the [[2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump|triple jump]], with a distance of 14.33 m, after posting a 14.46 m and coming in third in the qualifying round.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntTQBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA71|title=14th World Athletics Championships – Moscow 2013. Complete Results & Athlete Reference|isbn=978-1291528701|year=2013|author=Simon Barclay}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V9FjAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA150|title=DLV-Jahrbuch 2013|author=Deutsche Leichtathletik Marketing GmbH|year=2013|isbn=978-3732255016}}</ref><ref name="jpost.com"/><ref name="jpost.com2">{{cite web|url=http://www.jpost.com/Sports/Knyazyeva-Minenko-misses-medal-in-Moscow-323272|title=Knyazyeva-Minenko misses medal in Moscow; Israeli ends triple jump final in sixth position; Gordon, Hejnova take superb 400m hurdles golds.|work=The Jerusalem Post|author=Allon Sinai}}</ref> She was the first Israeli to reach a World Championships final since Israeli [[Alex Averbukh]] in the [[pole vault]], in 2007.<ref name="jpost.com"/> She observed: "I'm still young, and I’ve got many more years to represent [Israel] and bring it honor."<ref name="jpost.com2"/>

 

|Triple jump

|[[2022 European Athletics Championships – Women's triple jump|14.45 m]]

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| title = [[List of flag bearers for Israel at the Olympics|Flagbearer]] for {{ISR}}

| years = (with [[Yakov Toumarkin]])<br />[[2020 Summer Olympics|Tokyo 2020]]

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