Maryna Arzamasova

Maryna Aliaksandrauna Arzamasova (née Katowich, Belarusian: Марына Аляксандраўна Арзамасава (Катовіч), Russian: Марина Александровна Арзамасова; born 17 December 1987) is a Belarusian middle-distance runner.^[1]

Maryna Arzamasova

Arzamasova in 2013
Personal information
Nationality	Belarusian
Born	(1987-12-17) 17 December 1987 (age 37) Minsk, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	800 metres
Club	Minsk
Achievements and titles
Personal best	800 m: 1:57.54 (2015)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Belarus World Championships 2015 Beijing 800 m World Indoor Championships 2014 Sopot 800 m European Championships 2014 Zürich 800 m 2012 Helsinki 800 m European Indoor Championships 2013 Gothenburg 800 m

Arzamasova was banned from 2019 to 2023 after testing positive for using ligandrol.

Career and achievements

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's 800 metres. She won a bronze medal at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships in the 800 metres. In August 2014, Arzamasova won 2014 European Athletics Championships in the 800 metres in a European leading time of 1:58.15.^[2] One year later she became world champion in the 800 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing.^[3]

In 2019, she won the silver medal in the team event at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus.^[4]

Doping ban

In December 2020, Arzamasova was served with a four-year ban backdated to July 2019 for an anti-doping rule violation after testing positive for ligandrol.^[5][6][7]

Personal life

Her mother, Ravilya Agletdinova was also a middle-distance runner and won the 1500 m European title in 1986 – an achievement which Arzamasava repeated.^[8]