Anna Chicherova

Anna Chicherova

Anna Chicherova at the 2013 World Championships
Personal information
Born	(1982-07-22) 22 July 1982 Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union[1]
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Weight	57 kg (126 lb)[2]
Sport
Country	Russia
Club	CSKA Moscow
Now coaching	Yevgeniy Zagorulko
Achievements and titles
World finals	1st (Daegu 2011)
Olympic finals	3rd (Beijing 2008) (DSQ), 1st (London 2012)
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 1 0 0 World Championships 1 2 2 European Championships 1 2 1 European Indoor Championships 0 2 1 Total 3 6 3 Olympic Games 2012 London High jump Disqualified 2008 Beijing High jump World Championships 2011 Daegu High jump 2007 Osaka High jump 2009 Berlin High jump 2013 Moscow High jump 2015 Beijing High jump World Indoor Championships 2004 Budapest High jump 2012 Istanbul High jump 2003 Birmingham High jump
Updated on 29 August 2015.

Anna Vladimirovna Chicherova (Russian: Анна Владимировна Чичерова; born 22 July 1982) is a Russian high jumper. She was the gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics and the 2011 World Championships in Athletics and originally won a bronze medal in the event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was also runner-up at the World Championships in 2007 and 2009, and bronze medalist in 2013 and 2015.

In May 2016, it was reported^[3] that a retest of samples from the 2008 Games had found 31 positive findings for performance-enhancing drugs. According to Russian news agency TASS, one of those positive tests was admitted by her coach to belong to Chicherova.^[4] On 6 October 2016, the IOC confirmed that Chicherova had failed a doping test, due to the presence of turinabol in her 2008 sample, and stripped her of her bronze medal^[5]

Biography

Chicherova was born in Yerevan and then moved to Belaya Kalitva, Russia, when the Soviet Union dissolved. She previously announced that she would retire after the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, after 14 years at the top, but has since continued to jump. After her second world silver in 2009, Chicherova announced her retirement, but after giving birth in 2010, she made her come back in 2011.

In 1999, she won her first major title when she was only 16, at the world youth championships in Bydgoszcz. Chicherova was among the world leading high jumpers for several years until she missed the 2010 season due to pregnancy. After returning in 2011 she established herself as the world leading female high jumper displacing Blanka Vlašić. Her personal best jump and the Russian national record is 2.07 metres, achieved on her 29th birthday at the Russian track and field championships of 2011. Her best indoors was achieved at the Hochsprung mit Musik meeting 2012 in Arnstadt with 2.06 m. She thereby improved her Russian indoor national record by two centimeters. Chicherova is among the top ten high jumpers of all time both indoor and outdoor.^[6][7]

Chicherova is currently in the Russian Army Athletics Club based in Moscow, where she is coached by Yevgeni Zagorulko. She is married to Gennadiy Chernovol. She was absent for the 2010 season due to pregnancy and had her first child, Nika, in September that year.^[8]

With her victories in Daegu and London, Chicherova became only the third female high jumper in history (after Stefka Kostadinova & Heike Henkel) to win at both the Olympic Games and the World Championships.

Achievements

Personal Bests

• 6 Times Russian National High Jump Champion – 2004, 07, 08, 09, 11, 12

See also

• Female two metres club

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Anna Chicherova.

• Anna Chicherova profile at IAAF
• Russian Athletics Association Profile
• Anna Chicherova Pictures

Sporting positions
Preceded by Blanka Vlašić	Women's High Jump Best Year Performance 2011–2012	Succeeded by Brigetta Barrett
Preceded by Brigetta Barrett	Women's High Jump Best Year Performance 2014–2015	Succeeded by