Viktoriia Tkachuk 1

Runner 400mH from Ukraine

Short info

  • PB – 53.76
  • 🏃NIKE Athlete 💎
  • 🏃Tokyo 2020 🇯🇵
  • 🙋Ukrainian athlete who competes in the 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles
  • 🏆Multiple champion and medalist of national championships in sprinting events
  • 🏃🏻‍♀️Ukrainian record holder in the indoor 4×400 meters relay
  • 🏟Participant in the Summer Olympic Games (2016 and 2020)
  • 🥈Silver medalist at the 2022 European Championships

Biography

2006 – Started athletics. She started her sports career in the town of Netishyn (Khmelnytskyi region), where her first coach was Oleksandr Krasnov. In 2012, she was enrolled in the athletics department of the Donetsk School of Physical Education and Sports. During this period, Valerii Doroshenko, Honored Coach of Ukraine, and later Anatolii Chumak, Honored Coach of Ukraine, became her mentor.

Education

From 2011 to 2014, she studied at the Donetsk Higher School of the Olympic Reserve named after S. Bubka.

Experience in running

2015 – won a bronze medal at the European Team Championships in Cheboksary. In the same year, she took part in the World Championships in China.

In 2016, she represented Ukraine at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

August 4, 2020 – took part in the 2020 Olympics, where she finished sixth in the 400m hurdles with a result of 53:79.

On March 7, 2021, at the European Indoor Championships in Torun, she co-authored the national record in the 4×400 meter relay race (3.30.38) along with other athletes.

Awards

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Life mission statement

You Can’t Stop Sport. Because You Can’t Stop Us.

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