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Hammer throw

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er. She used to hold the world record

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 with 77.80 metres, achieved on 15 August 2006 in Tallinn

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Her first world record was 77.06 metres, achieved on July 15, 2005 in Moscow

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, beating the old record of Mihaela Melinte

Mihaela Melinte

Mihaela Melinte is a Romanian hammer thrower. She holds the world junior record, and with 76.07 metres she held the world record until Tatyana Lysenko beat it in July 2005...

 by 0.99 metres. On June 12, 2006 she lost the record to Gulfiya Khanafeyeva

Gulfiya Khanafeyeva

Gulfiya Raifovna Khanafeyeva is a Russian hammer thrower of Tatar ethnicity.Her international breakthrough came following her world record breaking throw of 77.26 metres from 12 June 2006 in Tula. She beat fellow Russian Tatyana Lysenko, however Lysenko threw 77.41 metres on 24 June in Zhukovskiy...

, who threw 77.26 metres at the Russian athletics championships in Tula

Tula, Russia

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. However, Lysenko threw 77.41 metres on June 24 in Zhukovsky

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 and 77.80 metres in Tallinn, Estonia

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 on August 15.

On July 21, 2007 it was reported that she has failed a drug test

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, testing positive for a women's hormone blocker.

In 2008 she was found guilty of using 6α-methylandrostendione and received 2 years ineligibility (15.07.07 – 14.07.09) and disqualification of all results from 09.05.07 including her world record of 78.61 m set on May 26, 2007 Lysenko returned to competition in July 2009, taking the Russian title with 76.41 m.

She won the gold at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup

2010 IAAF Continental Cup

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 and ranked third in the inaugural IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge

IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge

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 at the end of the year, with a combined score of 223.96 metres for her three best throws.

Achievements

Representing
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	19th	66.82 m
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	3rd	72.46 m
2006	European Championships 2006 European Championships in Athletics The 19th European Athletics Championships were held in Gothenburg, Sweden, between 7 August and 13 August 2006. The competition arena was the Ullevi Stadium and the official motto "Catch the Spirit"...	Gothenburg, Sweden	1st	76.67 m = CR
	World Cup 2006 IAAF World Cup The 10th IAAF World Cup in Athletics was an international track and field sporting event, held under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, which took place on 16 and 17 September 2006 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece....	Athens, Greece	2nd	74.44 m
2009	World Championships 2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw The Women's Hammer Throw event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 20 and August 22.-Medalists:-Abbreviations:*All results shown are in metres-Records:...	Berlin, Germany	6th	72.22 m
2010	European Cup Winter Throwing 2010 European Cup Winter Throwing The 2010 European Cup Winter Throwing was held on 20 and 21 March 2010 at the Stade Fernand Fournier in Arles, France. It was the tenth edition of the athletics competition for throwing events and it was organised by the European Athletics Association and the Fédération française d'athlétisme .The...	Arles, France	3rd	69.11 m
	European Championships 2010 European Championships in Athletics The 2010 European Athletics Championships were the 20th edition of the European Athletics Championships, organised under the supervision of the European Athletic Association. They were held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain from 27 July to 1 August 2010...	Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of... , Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	2nd	75.65 m 2010 European Athletics Championships – Women's hammer throw The women's hammer throw at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 28 and 30 July.-Medalists:-Records:-Schedule:-Qualification:...
	Continental Cup 2010 IAAF Continental Cup The 1st IAAF Continental Cup was an international track and field sporting event held under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations. Originally scheduled as the 11th IAAF World Cup in Athletics, it was renamed in 2008 when the IAAF revamped the competition format...	Split, Croatia	1st	73.88 m
2011	World Championships 2011 World Championships in Athletics The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011....	Daegu Daegu Daegu , also known as Taegu, and officially the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea, the fourth largest after Seoul, Busan, and Incheon, and the third largest metropolitan area in the country with over 2.5 million residents. The city is the capital and principal city of the... , South Korea South Korea The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...	1st	77.13 m 2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw The women's hammer throw event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on September 2 and 4.Betty Heidler was the pre-event favourite: she was undefeated that season, held the four best marks of the year, and had broken the world record with a throw of...