Aksana Drahun

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aksana Drahun

Aksana Drahun (left) at the 2007 World Championships
Medal record
Representing  Belarus
Women's athletics
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Helsinki 4x100 m relay

Aksana Drahun (Belarusian: Аксана Драгун; born May 19, 1981), a.k.a. Oksana Dragun, is a Belarusian sprinter, who specializes in the 100 metres.[1] Her personal best time is 11.28 seconds, achieved in July 2005 in Minsk.

Drahun won a bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics together with Yulia Nestsiarenka, Natallia Solohub and Alena Neumiarzhitskaya. At the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg she won a bronze medal in 4 × 100 m relay with Nestsiarenka, Natallia Safronnikava and Neumiarzhitskaya.

Drahun represented Belarus at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4 × 100 m relay together with Nestsiarenka, Nastassia Shuliak and Anna Bagdanovich. In their first round heat they placed sixth with a time of 43.69 seconds, which was the 9th time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they failed to qualify for the final.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Athlete biography: Aksana Drahun, beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug 30, 2008

External links[edit]