Anastasiya Kapachinskaya

Anastasiya Kapachinskaya

Kapachinskaya at the 2011 World Championships
Personal information
Born	November 21, 1979
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Country	Russia
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	4 × 400m Relay
Medal record Olympic Games 2008 Beijing 4x400 metre relay 2012 London 4×400 m relay World Championships 2003 Paris 200 m 2003 Paris 4x400 m relay 2001 Edmonton 4x400 m relay 2009 Berlin 4x400 m relay 2011 Daegu 400m 2011 Daegu 4x400 m relay European Championships 2010 Barcelona 4x400 m relay

Anastasiya Alexandrovna Kapachinskaya (Russian: Анастасия Александровна Капачинская) (born November 20, 1979 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a sprint athlete.

At the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 2004 she won the 200 m, but was stripped of the title after testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid stanozolol. She denied all knowledge of how it had happened and during the two-year ban that she has received has vowed to work with the World Anti-Doping Agency promoting sports without drugs, joining Kelli White of the United States of America who also fell foul of the same rules after traces of modafinil were found in her urine sample.

In a statement she said "It’s an accident, I swear I did not take any banned substances, but I do not deny that they were tested in my samples. It was my negligence."

In 2006, Kapachinskaya's mother died, and this affected her running immensely. In the 2008 Olympics, however, she was in the 400 m final and her result was fifth after Yulia Gushchina but achieved a silver in the 4X400 m relay.

In 2009, she again was in the final of 400 m in the world championships and was 6th. The Russian team which included Kapachinskaya achieved a bronze in the relay.

Major achievements

• 2002
  • Russian Championships – Cheboksari.
    • 400 m bronze medal
  • European Championships – Munich, Germany.
    • 4 x 400 m relay silver medal
• 2003
  • World Championships – Paris, France.
    • 200 m gold medal
    • 4 x 400 m relay silver medal
  • Russian Indoor Championships – Tula.
    • 200 m gold medal
  • World Indoor Championships – Birmingham, England.
    • 200 m bronze medal
  • 1st IAAF World Athletics Final – Monaco.
    • 200 m third place
  • European Cup – Florence, Italy.
    • 200 m gold medal
• 2011
  • World Championships – Daegu, Korea.
    • 400m bronze medal
• 2012
  • Olympic Games - London, Great Britain.
    • 4 × 400 m silver medal

See also

• List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

References

• sports-reference