Biktasheva, Lyudmila Marsovna

Lyudmila Biktasheva was born on July 25, 1974 in the city of Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk Region . She began to actively engage in athletics at the age of fourteen, was trained at the local Metallist stadium under the guidance of Honored Coach Fyodor Mikhailovich Arkhipov . Later she joined the Dynamo Sports and Fitness Society.

It first made itself known in 1993, having won the Russian championship among juniors in the 10,000 meter race and received a bronze medal at the European Junior Championships in San Sebastian - thereby fulfilling the standard of a master of sports .

She achieved her first serious success at the adult level in the 1997 season, when she won at a distance of 10 km at the Russian Championship in highway running in Shchelkovo . A year later, at the Russian Championship in Moscow, she became a bronze medalist at ten thousand meters and then performed at the European Championship in Budapest , where she closed the top ten in the same discipline. At the end of the season, she was awarded the honorary title " Master of Sports of Russia of International Class ". In 1999, she started at the World Half Marathon Championship in Palermo , took the ninth place in the individual competition, while in the team championship she received bronze with Valentina Egorova and Alina Ivanova .

In 2000, Biktasheva won a bronze medal in the ten thousand meter race at the Russian Championships in Tula , passing ahead only Galina Bogomolova and Lidia Grigoryeva . Thanks to a successful performance at the All-Russian Championship, she was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the Sydney Summer Olympics - she qualified from the ninth place in the preliminary stage, while in the decisive run she finished thirteenth.

After the Sydney Olympics, Lyudmila Biktasheva remained in the main team of the Russian national team and continued to take part in major international starts. So, in 2001 at the Russian Championships in Tula, she overtook all her rivals by ten thousand meters, entered the top ten at the World Championships in Edmonton , became the thirteenth at the World Championships in half marathon in Bristol , finished fourth at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane. The following season, at the All-Russian Championship in Cheboksary , she was again the best in 10,000 meters running, and at the subsequent European Championships in Munich she won a bronze medal in this discipline and set a personal record of 31: 04.00 - only Briton Paul Radcliffe and she finished at the finish Irish Sonia O'Sullivan .

In 2003, she marked a victory in the team championship at the world championship in the half marathon in the Portuguese city of Vilamoura , while in the individual competition she reached the seventh finish. I was forced to miss several seasons due to a serious injury, in 2006 I returned to big sport and won the five-mile race of Celebrate Westlake in the USA. In 2008, she tried her hand at the world championship in the half marathon in Rio de Janeiro , at the finish she was twentieth. In 2011, she set a personal record in the marathon at 2:29:57 ^{[1] [2]} .

• Lyudmila Biktasheva - profile on the IAAF website
• Lyudmila Biktasheva - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
• Biktasheva Lyudmila Mikhailovna - biography on the site "Sports in the Urals"
• Biktasheva Lyudmila Marsovna - page on the website "Sports Russia"