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Olga Ryabinkina
Russian shot putter
Olga Sergeyevna Ryabinkina (Russian: Ольга Серге́евна Рябинкина; born 24 September 1976 in Bryansk) is a female shot putter from Russia.
She finished tenth at the 2000 Summer Olympics. At the 2004 Summer Olympics she failed to progress from the initial round.
In 2005, she achieved a personal best throw with 19.65 metres and won bronze at the European Indoor Championships and silver at the World Championships. Eight years later she was pronounced 2005 World champion when a retest of Nadzeya Astapchuk's doping sample revealed that she had been doping.[1]
In 2006, she won the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships, finished fourth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and second at the World Cup, the latter in a season best of 19.54 metres.
