Alina Shukh

{{short description|Ukrainian heptathlete (born 1999)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Alina Shukh

| birth_name =

| image = 150 pent hoog shukh (33193470822).jpg

| caption = Shukh in 2017

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1999|2|12|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Brovary, Ukraine

| death_date =

| death_place =

| height = 1.75 m

| weight =

| country = Ukraine

| sport = Athletics

| event = Heptathlon, Pentathlon, Javelin throw

| club =

| coach = Maya and Anatoliy Shukh

| medaltemplates =

{{Medal|Sport|Women's athletics}}

{{Medal|Country|{{UKR}}}}

{{Medal|Competition|World U20 Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold|2018 Tampere|Javelin throw}}

{{Medal|Competition|European U20 Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold|2017 Grosseto|Heptathlon}}

{{Medal|Competition|World U18 Championships}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2015 Cali|Heptathlon}}

{{Medal|Competition|European U18 Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold|2016 Tbilisi|Heptathlon}}

}}

Alina Anatolyivna Shukh ({{langx|uk|Аліна Анатоліївна Шух}}; born 12 February 1999{{cite web |title=Alina SHUKH – Athlete Profile |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/ukraine/alina-shukh-14538827 |website=World Athletics |access-date=1 January 2023}}) is a Ukrainian athlete specialising in the combined events. She won the gold medal in the javelin throw at the 2018 World Under-20 Championships. In the heptathlon, Shukh claimed gold at the 2017 European U20 Championships, bronze at the 2015 World U18 Championships and gold at the 2016 European U18 Championships.

She is the world junior record holder for the pentathlon with the third-best U20 mark in history (some results were not ratified as there was no post-competition doping control).{{Cite web |date=19 December 2018 |title=Gen 10: all-round talent Alina Shukh |url=https://www.worldathletics.org/news/series/gen-10-alina-shukh |access-date=19 December 2018 |website=World Athletics}} Shukh is a five-time Ukrainian national champion.

She competed in the women's heptathlon at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London, placing 14th, and in the women's pentathlon at the 2018 World Indoor Championships held in Birmingham, finishing seventh.{{cite web|url=https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-championships/iaaf-world-championships-london-2017-5151/results/women/heptathlon/100-metres-hurdles/startlist#resultheader |title=Heptathlon women |publisher=IAAF |access-date=5 August 2017}}

Statistics

=International competitions=

{{AchievementTable|nation=UKR|Event=yes|Result=yes|NotesOff=yes}}
rowspan=2|2015

|World Youth Championships

|Cali, Colombia

|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|Heptathlon

|5896 pts

European Youth Olympic Festival

|Tbilisi, Georgia

|17th (h)

|100 m hurdles (76.2 cm)

|14.42

rowspan=2|2016

|rowspan=2|European Youth Championships

|rowspan=2|Tbilisi, Georgia

|6th

|Javelin throw

|54.00

bgcolor=gold|1st

|Heptathlon

|6186 pts {{AthAbbr|WYB}}

rowspan=4|2017

|European Indoor Championships

|Belgrade, Serbia

|11th

|Pentathlon

|4377 pts

European CE Team Championships Super League

|Tallinn, Estonia

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Heptathlon

|6208 pts {{AthAbbr|NJR}}

European U20 Championships

|Grosseto, Italy

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Heptathlon

|6381 pts {{AthAbbr|WU20L}}

World Championships

|London, United Kingdom

|14th

|Heptathlon

|6075 pts

rowspan=4|2018

|World Indoor Championships

|Birmingham, United Kingdom

|7th

|Pentathlon

|4466 pts

rowspan=2|World U20 Championships

|rowspan=2|Tampere, Finland

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Javelin throw

|55.95 {{AthAbbr|SB}}

|Heptathlon

|{{AthAbbr|DNF}}

European Championships

|Berlin, Germany

|15th

|Heptathlon

|5985 pts

rowspan=2|2019

|European Indoor Championships

|Glasgow, United Kingdom

|–

|Pentathlon

|{{AthAbbr|DNF}}

European U23 Championships

|Gävle, Sweden

|15th

|Heptathlon

|5530 pts

=Personal bests=

;Indoors

=National titles=

References

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