Anastasiya Prokopenko

Anastasiya Prokopenko
Personal information
Full name Anastasiya Samusevich-Prokopenko
Nationality Belarusian
Born (1985-09-20) 20 September 1985
Slutsk, Byelorussia, Soviet Union
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Country  Belarus
Sport Modern pentathlon
Club SK VS Minsk
Coached by Anatoli Tkachenka

Anastasiya Samusevich-Prokopenko (Belarusian: Настасся Самусевіч Пракапенка; Łacinka: Nastassia Samusievič Prakapienka; born 20 September 1985) is a Belarusian modern pentathlete who competed at two Summer Olympics.[2]

Career

In 2018, she was awarded the bronze medal of the women's competition at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing[3],following the disqualification of Ukraine's Viktoriya Tereshchuk, due to a doping offense. She finished sixth in 2012. Prokopenko also set a world record time of 10:20.90 in the combined running and shooting segment.[4]

Prokopenko also won a team gold medal at the 2007 World Modern Pentathlon Championships in Berlin, Germany, along with her compatriots Tatsiana Mazurkevich and Hanna Vasilionak.

At the 2018 World Modern Pentathlon Championships in Mexico City, Prokopenko won the world title in the women's individual event [5] as well as in the Women's Relay event (together with compatriot Iryna Prasiantsava)[6] She lives with her husband, Mikhail, also a modern pentathlete, and a son.


References

  1. ↑ "Настассі Пракапенка ўручылі бронзавы медаль Алімпіяды-2008" (in Belarusian). 2018-09-14.
  2. ↑ "Anastasiya Prokopenko". London 2012. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. Archived from the original on 1 January 2013. Retrieved 17 September 2012.
  3. ↑ {{cite web|url:http://www.uipmworld.org/news/anastasiya-prokopenko-blr-receives-beijing-2008-olympic-bronze-medal%7C
  4. ↑ "Olympic Modern Pentathlon Records – Olympic & World Records". London 2012. 12 August 2012. Archived from the original on 1 January 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  5. ↑ {{cite web|url:http://www.uipmworld.org/news/uipm-2018-pentathlon-world-championships-prokopenko-blr-top-world-last
  6. ↑ {{cite web|url:http://www.uipmworld.org/news/uipm-2018-pentathlon-world-championships-belarus-make-history-pentathlon-stadium-womens-relay
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