Olga Dor-Dogadko
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Olga Dor-Dogadko, née Dogadedko (born 26 June 1976) is a retired Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...

 and the pole vault
Pole vault
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...

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She emigrated from the Moldovan SSR in 1991. In 1999 she competed in 200 metres at the 1999 World Indoor Championships
1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships
The 7th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in the Green Dome Maebashi stadium in Maebashi, Japan from March 5 to March 7, 1999. It was the first time the Championships were staged outside Europe or North America. Primo Nebiolo, president of the IAAF, characterized the...

 and in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1999 World Championships. Both times she failed to progress from the first round. She took the Israeli national titles in the 200 metres in 1998 and 2000, in the 100 metres hurdles
100 metres hurdles
The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...

 in 1994, in the 400 metres hurdles in 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002 and 2003, and in the heptathlon
Heptathlon
A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta and athlon . A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete.-Women's Heptathlon:...

 in 1995. Her personal best time in the 400 metres hurdles was 56.75 seconds, achieved in June 1999 in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

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She then switched to the pole vault. She competed at the 2002 European Athletics without registering a valid mark. She took the Israeli national title in 2003 and 2004. Her personal best jump was 4.03 metres, achieved in July 2007 in Tel Aviv.
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