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St Lucia Athletics St Lucia Athletics – Sandisha Antonine Saint Lucia triple jumper aims for Tokyo 2021 February 18, 2020 Article by Terry Finisterre Sandisha Antoine St Lucia Athletics is celebrating her 28th birthday in a very unfamiliar place. She is uncertain, perhaps a little bit scared. And indubitably very excited about what lays ahead … Read more
German Sprinter Alexandra Burghardt is our first feature for track beauty of the week. A new section of our site dedicated to Female Track and Field athletes from around the world.
The 23-year-old is a sprinter/hurdler with best times of 11.32 in the 100 and 13.41 in the 100 Hurdles. While the tall muscular German girl stands at 1.81m, almost 6 feet tall and weighs 70kg. In 2018 Burghardt decided to focus on the 100 and 200. She set a new 200 PB of 23.57 at Claremont on 23 April.
Svetlana Shkolina World Champion Women High Jump Exercises and Diet Published December 29, 2019 Svetlana Shkolina of Russia won the women’s high jump at the world championships Saturday. With a leap of 6 feet, 8 inches. And beating Brigetta Barrett of the United States by 1¼ inches. While she earned a bronze medal at the … Read more
Olga is a good height for a sprinter standing 5’8 and weighing 65kg. She is coached by Yury Masktakov and Alexander Denisko. And graduated from Karaganda University.
Interestingly looking at her development she was an average 16-17-year-old with 12.5-sec runs. But really leveled up at 19 with her first sub 12 runs. From 2010 to 2011 from 19-20 she improved from 11.87 to 11.37 and then 11.37 to 11.12 at 21.
Olga competed at the 2012 Olympics and made it to the semi-finals in the 100m.