Tatyana Alekseyeva

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Tatyana Petrovna Alekseyeva ({{langx|ru|Татьяна Петровна Алексеева}}; born 7 October 1963) is a former 400 metres sprinter from Novosibirsk, Russia.[https://web.archive.org/web/20151222075226/http://www.karelin.ru/z250413.php 24 апреля в нашем городе прошла конференция Новосибирской областной организации Общество «Динамо», посвящённое 90-летию со дня основания Всероссийского спортивного общества «Динамо».] {{in lang|ru}}. Karelin. Retrieved 2019-07-20. Her personal best result was 49.98. She retired from international competition after 1998. A three-time individual Russian national champion, she won 400 m silver medals at the IAAF World Indoor Championships and European Athletics Indoor Championships. With the Russian 4 × 400 metres relay team, she set an indoor world record to win gold at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships and set the Russian record of 3:18.38 as silver medallist at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics.

Career

Alekseyeva was a double gold medallist for the Soviet Union at the 1985 Summer Universiade, taking both individual and relay 400 m titles.[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/wsgw.htm Universiade (Women)]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-07-20. She competed at the 1985 IAAF World Cup that year and shared in a relay silver medal with Irina Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina and Olha Bryzhina.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121026100106/http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/79/40/20100809103225_httppostedfile_split2010_21818.pdf IAAF World Cup]. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-07-20. She was chosen as the heats runner for the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics and helped the Soviet team to the final, where they took a silver medal.

Running a Russian indoor record of 51.03 seconds, Alekseyeva was the 400 m silver medalist at the 1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships. She also won a gold in the 4 × 400 metres relay, alongside Marina Shmonina, Yelena Andreyeva, and Yelena Ruzina, but the team was stripped of the titles due to doping by Shmonina.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sh/marina-shmonina-1.html |title=Marina Shmonina |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418110343/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sh/marina-shmonina-1.html |archive-date=2020-04-18 |check-wikidata=no}} At the 1993 World Championships in Athletics she narrowly missed out on an individual medal, taking fourth behind Jamaica's Sandie Richards, but left the competition with a silver medal through the Russian record-breaking relay team including Ruzina, Margarita Ponomaryova and Irina Privalova, which was runner-up to the United States with 3:18.38 minutes.[http://todor66.com/athletics/world/1993/Women_4x400m_Relay.html Women 4x400m Relay Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) - Sunday 22.08 - Gold Medal: United States]. Todor66. Retrieved 2019-07-20.

Alekseyeva was the 400 m runner-up at the 1994 European Athletics Indoor Championships. In her last year of international competition, she helped set a world indoor record in the 4 × 400 m relay, anchoring the team of Tatyana Chebykina, Svetlana Goncharenko and Olga Kotlyarova to top the podium at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships in 3:26.84 minutes.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120819043003/http://www2.iaaf.org/wic97/results/w/4x4/rf.html 4 X 400 Metres Women - Final 09-03-97]. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-07-20. She was an individual and relay finalist at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics.

At national level, she won one outdoor national title in the 400 m at the 1997 Russian Athletics Championships and two indoor titles at the Russian Indoor Athletics Championships (1993, 1994).[http://www.gbrathletics.com/nc/rus.htm Russian Championships]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-07-20.[http://www.gbrathletics.com/nc/rusi.htm Russian Indoor Championships]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-07-20. She was runner-up in the 200 metres and 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1991 Soviet Athletics Championships and placed third in the 60 metres at the 1992 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships.На стадионах страны и мира. Чемпионат России // Лёгкая атлетика : журнал. — 1992. — № 3. — С. 30. {{in lang|ru}}