Yuliya Akulenko Explained

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Yuliya Akulenko
Fullname:Yuliya Yuriïvna Akulenko
Sport:Athletics
Event:Heptathlon
Club:Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk
Pb:Heptathlon: 6203 points
(2004)
Birth Date:3 July 1977
Birth Place:Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian
SSR
, Soviet Union
Weight:530NaN0
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Yuliya Yuriïvna Akulenko (Ukrainian: Юлiя Юрiївна Акуленко; born 3 July 1977 in Dnipropetrovsk) is a retired Ukrainian heptathlete.[1] She represented her nation Ukraine at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing in twenty-third position, and also set her own personal best of 6203 points at a national meeting in Kyiv.[2] Akulenko is also a member of the track and field squad for Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk.

Akulenko qualified for the Ukrainian squad in the women's heptathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by attaining an IAAF A-standard and a personal best of 6203 points at the national meet in Kyiv.[2] Despite that she threw the javelin for a higher position to spare herself from behind, Akulenko managed to finish a respectable twenty-third with a total score of 5996, trailing her teammate Nataliya Dobrynska by a wide 259-point gap.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Yuliya Akulenko. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418001752/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ak/yuliya-akulenko-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. 8 October 2015.
  2. News: Представляем: Легкая атлетика. Schedule: Athletics. uk. Sport.ua. 5 August 2004. 8 October 2015.
  3. Web site: IAAF Athens 2004: Women's Heptathlon. Athens 2004. IAAF. 27 September 2013.