13 Facts About Tatyana Kotova

Tatyana Vladimirovna Kotova is a track and field athlete who competed for Russia in the long jump.

Tatyana Kotova won three consecutive silver medals at the World Championships in Athletics from 2001 to 2005, taking bronze in 2007.

Tatyana Kotova had even greater success indoors, where she won the World Indoor Championships on three occasions, in 1999,2003 and 2006, as well as finishing as runner-up in 2001 and 2004.

Tatyana Kotova was later stripped of her 2005 World silver and 2006 World Indoor title.

Tatyana Kotova was third at the 2001 Goodwill Games and was the jackpot winner of the 2000 IAAF Golden League.

Tatyana Kotova was born in Kokand, Uzbek SSR, and grew up in Taboshar, Tajik SSR.

Tatyana Kotova started to take up track and field in 1995, previously practicing volleyball and basketball.

Training in Barnaul, West Siberia, Tatyana Kotova won a gold medal at the European U23 Championships in Turku, Finland, and in 1999 got a gold medal at the World Indoors in Maebashi.

Tatyana Kotova was injured in a car accident in August 2000, and went on to finish fourth less than two months later at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

Tatyana Kotova managed to both win and lose medals due to doping.

Tatyana Kotova was promoted to the bronze medal nine years later, after original bronze medal winner Marion Jones admitted usage of performance-enhancing drugs during the Olympics.

However, in 2013, samples from the 2005 World Championships were retested and Tatyana Kotova was found to have been doping.

Tatyana Kotova was stripped of her silver medal at the World Championships, and of the gold on the 2005 IAAF World Athletics Final, with Anju Bobby George promoted to first.