Nataliya Strebkova
 Strebkova at the 2020 Summer Olympics | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality |  Ukraine | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 March 1995 Studinka, Kalush Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Ivan Strebkov | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 3000m steeplechase | ||||||||||||||
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Nataliya Strebkova or Nataliia Strebkova (Ukrainian: Наталія Стребкова, maiden name Soltan, born 6 March 1995 in Kalush Raion) is a Ukrainian runner. She is a multiple-time national champion in the 3000 metres steeplechase, and indoors over 3000 metres. She competed at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.[1]
Career
[edit]She finished in thirteenth place at the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships in the 3000 metres race in Eugene, Oregon.[2] She won the Ukrainian U23 cross country race in 2016 in Bila Tserkva.[3] She was a silver medalist in the 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Her time of 9:44.52 broke her own Ukrainian youth record by five tenths of a second.[4][5]
Strebkova ran the Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase where she finished eleventh in heat one in a time of 9:49.15.[6]
She was one of 22 Ukrainian athletes accompanied out of Kyiv to compete at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon in July 2022, despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine that year.[7] At the Championships, she ran in the 3000 metres steeplechase and placed seventh in her heat in a time of 9:25.85.[8] She also competed over that distance at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany, qualifying for the final and placing ninth overall in a time of 9:37.52.[9]
In February 2023, she was runner-up at Albufeira on the World Athletics Cross Country Tour.[10]
Personal life
[edit]She is from Ternopil.[4] Her husband is Ukrainian runner Ivan Strebkov. As of 2022, they lived in Kyiv.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Athletics - STREBKOVA Nataliya - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Tokyo2020.org. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- ^ "IAAF World Junior Championships". World Athletics. 22 July 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ "Chasing a place in Chia". European Athletics. 24 October 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ a b "Ternopolska strebkova Natalia became the silver medalist of the European championship in athletics among young people". arife.rv.ua. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ "Bydgoszcz European U23 Championships". World Athletics. 13 July 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ "Athletics - Round 1 - Heat 1 Results". Tokyo2020.org. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-08-01. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
- ^ a b "Ukrainian athletes competing at World Athletics Championships amid war, uncertain future: 'For me, life will never be the same'". Oregon Live. 19 July 2022. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ "3000m Steeplechase Women Results: World Athletics Championships 2022". World Athletics. 14 July 2022. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 15 August 2022. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ "Schrub and Amebaw win in Albufeira as Cross Country Tour concludes". World Athletics. 26 Feb 2023. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
External links
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- 1995 births
- Living people
- Ukrainian female steeplechase runners
- Olympic athletes for Ukraine
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Ukrainian female cross country runners
- Athletes from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
- European Games competitors for Ukraine
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games
- 21st-century Ukrainian sportswomen