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Iryna Yatchenko

1965 - Today

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Iryna Vasiliyevna Yatchenko (Belarusian: Ірына Ятчанка, Russian: Ирина Васильевна Ятченко; born 31 October 1965) is a Belarusian former discus thrower best known for winning two Olympic bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics, although she was eventually stripped of the latter medal due to a doping offence. She also became world champion at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Iryna Yatchenko has received more than 19,438 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Iryna Yatchenko is the 2,041st most popular athlete (down from 1,773rd in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 189th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Belarusian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Iryna Yatchenko ranks 2,041 out of 6,025Before her are Fred Børre Lundberg, Linford Christie, Alois Schnabel, Anita Włodarczyk, Ozren Bonačić, and Natalya Pechonkina. After her are Siegfried Brietzke, Anne Henning, Duvall Hecht, Leif Jenssen, Ryszard Parulski, and Mae Faggs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Iryna Yatchenko ranks 445Before her are Terry Richardson, Keiji Inafune, Goldie, Tyler Bates, Paco Llorente, and Adam Jones. After her are Lee Tergesen, Patrick Vervoort, Manolo, Lou Ye, Foto Strakosha, and Salima Ikram.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Iryna Yatchenko ranks 194 out of 368Before her are Aleksandr Volodin (1919), Andrei Zygmantovich (1962), Czesław Michniewicz (1970), Siarhei Tsikhanouski (1978), Sergey Gotsmanov (1959), and Vladimir Alekno (1966). After her are Maria Kalesnikava (1982), Mikola Statkevich (1956), Igor Zhelezovski (1963), Syarhey Rumas (1969), Ivan Tsikhan (1976), and Igor Astapkovich (1963).

Among ATHLETES In Belarus

Among athletes born in Belarus, Iryna Yatchenko ranks 8Before her are Tamara Tyshkevich (1931), Vasily Rudenkov (1931), Leonid Taranenko (1956), Nikolai Gorbachev (1948), Darya Domracheva (1986), and Rita Achkina (1938). After her are Ivan Tsikhan (1976), Igor Astapkovich (1963), Aleksandr Karshakevich (1959), Vyacheslav Yanovskiy (1957), Yaroslav Rybakov (1980), and Andrei Mikhnevich (1976).