Yuliya Zaripova

About Yuliya Zaripova

Yuliya Mikhailovna Zaripova is a Russian middle-distance runner who specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase event. She is currently banned for doping.

Career Success:

• Her first continental medals came at the 2008 European Cross Country Championships, where she won the bronze medal and silver team medal with Russia in the women's under-23 race.The following year she became the Russian indoor champion in the 3000 metres and took part in the women's 3000 m at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships, finishing in seventh place.
  
• In the summer the following year she won at the 2010 European Team Championships, setting a championship record, and also competed on the IAAF Diamond League circuit, winning at the DN Galan. She won the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships, defeating Domínguez on home turf in Barcelona. Zaripova closed her season with a win at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup in a championship record time.
  
• She won the gold medal in the steeplechase at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, improving from her runner-up placing in 2009. She began 2012 with a win at the Volgograd 10K in May.She won the gold medal in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2012 Summer Olympics in a new personal best time of 9:06.72.In the DN Galan on 17 August 2012, she improved her personal best again, to 9:05.02.
  

Yuliya Zaripova Achievements

Olympic Games

• Gold medal – first place2012 London3000 m st.
  

World Championships

• Gold medal – first place2011 Daegu3000 m st.
  
• Silver medal – second place2009 Berlin3000 m st.
  

European Championships

• Gold medal – first place2010 Barcelona3000 m st.
  

Continental Cup

• Gold medal – first place2010 Split3000 m st.