Yuliya Pechonkina

Pechonkina in Osaka 2007
Personal information
Born	(1978-04-21) 21 April 1978 (age 45) Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union
Sport
Country	Russia
Sport	Women's athletics
Medal record World Championships 2005 Helsinki 400 m hurdles 2005 Helsinki 4 × 400 m 2001 Edmonton 400 m hurdles 2003 Paris 4 × 400 m 2007 Osaka 400 m hurdles 2001 Edmonton 4 × 400 m 2003 Paris 400 m hurdles World Indoor Championships 2001 Lisbon 4 × 400 m 2003 Birmingham 4 × 400 m European Indoor Championships 2005 Madrid 4 × 400 m

Yuliya Sergeyevna Pechonkina, née Nosova (Russian: Юлия Серге́евна Печёнкина, born 21 April 1978 in Krasnoyarsk) is a Russian former athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles and 4 × 400 metres relay. She was previously married to former sprinter Evgeny Pechonkin.^[1]

She held the world record in 400 m hurdles (52.34 seconds achieved on 8 August 2003 in Tula) for almost 16 years until it was broken by Dalilah Muhammad on 28 July 2019 and the rarely contested 4 × 200 metres relay indoor (1:32.41 with Yekaterina Kondratyeva, Irina Khabarova and Yuliya Gushchina).

She had a recurring problem with sinusitis, an illness which caused her to miss both the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.^[2] Given her ill health, she decided to retire from athletics soon after the World Championships and instead took a job in the banking sector.^[3]

She has an annual meet held in Yerino named after her, under the title Yuliya Pechonkina Prizes.^[4]

International competitions

Representing  Russia

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
1996	World Junior Championships	Sydney, Australia	—	400m hurdles	DNF
			6th	4 × 400 m relay	3:37.34
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	16th (sf)	400 m hurdles	56.58
2001	World Indoor Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:30.00
	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	2nd	400 m hurdles	54.27
			3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:24.92
2002	European Indoor Championships	Vienna, Austria	5th	400 m	52.91
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:28.45
	World Championships	Paris, France	3rd	400 m hurdles	53.71
			2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:22.91
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	8th	400 m hurdles	55.79
2005	European Indoor Championships	Madrid, Spain	1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:28.00 CR
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	1st	400 m hurdles	52.90
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:20.95
	World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	2nd	400 m hurdles	53.80
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	2nd	400 m hurdles	53.50

National titles

• Russian Athletics Championships
  • 400 m hurdles: 2003, 2004, 2005^[5]
• Russian Indoor Athletics Championships
  • 400 m: 2002^[6]

Personal bests

• 400 metres - 53.22 s (2001)^{[citation needed]}
• 400 metres hurdles - 52.34 s (2003)^{[citation needed]}