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Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova

Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova

Belarusian long jumper

Nastassia Siarheyeuna Mironchyk-Ivanova (Belarusian: Настасся Сяргееўна Мірончык-Іванова, born 13 April 1989) is a Belarusian long jumper. In 2011, she became known for missing the World Championships gold medal because of her hair style. Her pony-tail left a mark in the sand well behind her body's 6.90 m mark.[1]

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On 25 November 2016 the IOC disqualified her from the 2012 Olympic Games and struck her results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of her doping sample from 2012.[2]

She was upgraded from fourth at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics to the bronze medal position as a result of a doping ban against Russian Olga Kucherenko, who had originally won the silver.[3]

In 2019, she won the silver medal in the team event at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    Incredible: Nastassia has lost the long jump gold and $60,000 dollars because of a hairstyle Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine, Gianni Merlo, La Gazzetta dello Sport, 2011-09-03.
  2. [2]
    "IOC sanctions seven athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008 and London 2012" (PDF). IOC. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  3. [3]
    Palmer, Dan (2017-02-01). Long jumper Kucherenko banned for two years, reports claim. Inside the Games. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  4. [4]
    "Team results" (PDF). 2019 European Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 October 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2020.


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