Mariya Ryemyen

Mariya Ryemyen

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Medal record Women's athletics Representing Ukraine Olympic Games 2012 London 4×100 m relay World Championships 2011 Daegu 4×100 m relay European Championships 2010 Barcelona 4×100 m relay 2012 Helsinki 200 m European Indoor Championships 2011 Paris 60 m 2013 Gothenburg 60 m Universiade 2013 Kazan 4×100 m relay

Mariya Ryemyen (Ukrainian: Марія Рємєнь; born 2 August 1987) is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres. Ryemyen was part (with Nataliya Pohrebnyak, Olesya Povh and Yelizaveta Bryzhina) of the Ukrainian women's 4x100m that won gold during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29 – the fastest time in the world that year.

Career

She finished seventh at the 2009 European U23 Championships. She also competed at the 2010 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.

In the 4 x 100 metres relay she competed at the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final. At the 2009 European U23 Championships the Ukrainian team failed to finish the race.

Her personal best times are 7.15 seconds in the 60 metres (indoor), achieved in March 2011 in Paris; and 11.27 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in June 2011 in Montreuil-sous-Bois.

In 2011, she competed for Fenerbahçe Athletics in Turkey. At the 2012 Olympics Maria represented the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the sports club "Ukraina". At the 2012 Olympic Games in London she and her teammates Olesya Povh, Hrystyna Stuy and Yelizaveta Bryzghina took the bronze medals in the 4 x 100 metres relay by setting a new national record.

She is currently serving a two-year doping ban for the use of a prohibited substance, methandienone. The ban lasts from 10 January 2014 to 2 March 2016.