Andreeva, Elena Leonidovna

Elena Andreeva was born on May 9, 1969 in the town of Revda, Sverdlovsk Region . She began to actively engage in athletics from early childhood, and was trained at the local youth school under the guidance of Nadezhda Nikolaevna Kamalova ^{[1] [2]} . At first, she performed in high jumps and 100 meters. In 1987 she received the first sports category and entered the Sverdlovsk regional school of higher sportsmanship, where she became the ward of Honored Trainer Leonid Ivanovich Kizilov ^[3] . She joined the Dynamo physical culture and sports society and in 1991 fulfilled the standard of the USSR Master of Sports .

In 1992, in the first winter track and field athletics championship of Russia in Volgograd, in the 400-meter race, she won a silver medal, losing only Vera Sychugova at the finish. A year later, thanks to a series of successful performances, she became a member of the Russian national team and won the right to defend the honor of the country at the World Championships in Toronto, where Russian runners Marina Shmonina , Tatyana Alekseeva , Elena Andreeva and Elena Ruzina confidently won the race, but Marina Shmonina failed. doping test, with the result that the whole team was deprived of gold medals. At the end of the season, Andreeva still received the title of master of sports of international class .

In the Russian championship in 1994 in St. Petersburg in the 400 meter race, she overtook all her rivals and won the gold award. Later, at the European Championships in Helsinki, she was close to the top positions, taking first place in the preliminary qualification stage, but in the finals she finished only fourth, losing bronze to British Philis Smith . At the same time in the 4 × 400 meter relay program, she, along with Natalia Khrushcheleva , Tatyana Zakharova , Svetlana Goncharenko and Elena Golesheva, managed to win the silver medal, showing the second result behind the team from France. Also this season became the bronze medalist of the European Cup in Birmingham and visited the Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg , where she became the fifth in the individual competition and took the silver in the relay.

In 1995, from the championship of Russia in Moscow, Andreeva brought two medals at once: bronze in her personal four-meter discipline and silver in the relay. As part of the relay team, she won the European Cup in Lille, won the summer Universiade in Fukuoka and won the silver medal at the world championship in Gothenburg - while her partners were Tatiana Chebykina , Svetlana Goncharenko and Yulia Sotnikova . In 1996 she was awarded the honorary title " Honored Master of Sports of Russia ."

Subsequently, Elena Andreeva no longer won loud victories in the international arena, although she continued to regularly participate in competitions at the regional and All-Russian level. In 2001 she became the winner of the European Cup among police officers held in Poland. In 2002, as part of the relay team of the Sverdlovsk region, she won the Russian Championship in Cheboksary . In 2004 she decided to complete the career of a professional athlete.

After completing her sports career, she graduated from the Institute of Physical Culture of the Ural State Technical University and then got a job as an instructor at the gym in the Rodnichok sanatorium in her hometown Revda. Since 2011, he has been in the position of Acting Head of the Department for Physical Culture and Sports of the Administration of the City District Revda ^{[4] [5]} .

• Andreeva, Elena Leonidovna - profile on the IAAF website (eng.)
• Andreeva Elena Leonidovna - biography on the site "Sport in the Urals"