Olga Kucherenko

Russian long jumper

2011 World Championships: 6.77 m – Silver

Medal record

Women’s athletics

Representing Russia
World Championships
Disqualified	2011 Daegu	Long jump
European Championships
	2010 Barcelona	Long Jump
European Indoor Championships
	2009 Turin	Long jump

Olga Sergeevna Kucherenko (Russian: Ольга Сергеевна Кучеренко; born 5 November 1985) is a Russian long jumper.

Career

She won the bronze medal at the 2009 European Indoor Championships. She also competed at the 2008 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.^[1] Her personal best jump is 7.13 metres, achieved in May 2010 in Sochi. She has 6.87 metres on the indoor track, achieved in January 2008 in Krasnodar.^[1]

In 2011, she won the silver medal in the world championships in Daegu with a result of 6.77 m.^[2] However, this results was subsequently annulled due to a failed drug test. A 2016 retest of the sample she gave at the competition came back positive as a result of improved detection processes. She received a two-year ban from the sport and her results from the period 28 August 2011 to 28 August 2013 were removed from the records.^[3]

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Russia
2007	European U23 Championships	Debrecen, Hungary	12th	Long jump	6.09 m (wind: -1.3 m/s)
2008	World Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	10th (q)	Long jump	6.32 m
2009	European Indoor Championships	Turin, Italy	3rd	Long jump	6.82 m
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	5th	Long jump	6.77 m
2010	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	3rd	Long jump	6.84 m
2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	DQ	Long jump	6.77 m
2013	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	6th	Long jump	6.62 m
2013	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	5th	Long jump	6.81 m

Notes

^ ^a ^b Olga Kucherenko at World Athletics
^ "Вести.Ru: Легкая атлетика. Ольга Кучеренко завоевала серебро в прыжках в длину" (in Russian). Retrieved 2011-08-28.
^ Palmer, Dan (2017-02-01). Long jumper Kucherenko banned for two years, reports claim. Inside the Games. Retrieved 2018-03-17.