Inessa Kravets
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Inessa Mykolayivna Kravets (née Shulyak, Template:Langx; born 5 October 1966) is a Ukrainian former triple jumper and long jumper. She was among the most prominent female triple jumpers in her era and was the world record holder until the 2021 Olympics, when Yulimar Rojas broke her record. Her record was one of the most durable in women's athletics.
Career
Born in Dnipropetrovsk, her breakthrough in the triple jump came in 1991 when she broke the world record with a clearance of 14.95 metres in June. Her first major medals came in 1992. At the inaugural appearance of the women's triple jump at the 1992 European Athletics Indoor Championships she won the gold medal. Later that year at the 1992 Summer Olympics she claimed the long jump silver as part of the Unified Team.
She followed this with a gold medal at the first women's triple jump at the 1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships, but due to a doping ban she did not compete at the debut of the event at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics, where Russia's Anna Biryukova took the title. In 1994 she won the long jump at the 1994 IAAF World Cup and doubled up at the 1994 European Athletics Championships to take long jump silver and triple jump bronze.
She jumped the world record at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg with 15.50 metres after studying a picture of Jonathan Edwards. The following year she won the Olympic gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, becoming the first ever women's champion in the triple jump.
Ban and suspension
Twice, Kravets was caught breaking international rules regarding performance-enhancing substances. In 1993, Kravets was given a suspension of three months for use of stimulants.<ref>IAAF - Kravets Inessa Biography. Retrieved 2008-08-27.</ref> Then Kravets was suspended for two years in July 2000 after testing positive for a performance-enhancing steroid.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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- 1966 births
- Living people
- Athletes from Dnipro
- Soviet women long jumpers
- Soviet women triple jumpers
- Ukrainian women triple jumpers
- Ukrainian women long jumpers
- Olympic athletes for the Unified Team
- Olympic athletes for Ukraine
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Ukraine
- Olympic silver medalists for the Unified Team
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Doping cases in the sport of athletics
- Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists in athletics
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- CIS Athletics Championships winners
- Soviet Athletics Championships winners
- World Athletics Indoor Championships winners
- World Athletics Championships winners
- Medalists at the 1991 Summer Universiade
- Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games
- World record setters in the sport of athletics
- Ukrainian Athletics Championships winners