Viktoriya Zyabkina

Viktoriya Viktorovna Zyabkina (Cyrillic: Виктория Викторовна Зябкина; born 4 September 1992) is a Kazakhstani sprinter who mostly competes in the 100 m and 200 m distances. She represented her country at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the finals. She won a silver and a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2014 and 2018 Asian Games, respectively. Between 2013 and 2017 she won five gold and one silver medals at the Asian Championships, five of them in individual events.^[2]

Viktoriya Zyabkina

Zyabkina at the 2017 Asian Championships
Personal information
Born	(1992-09-04) 4 September 1992 (age 32) Almaty, Kazakhstan[1]
Education	Sports education Translator/interpreter
Alma mater	Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Turan University
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	100–400 m
Coached by	Lyubov Nikitenko[2]
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m – 11.15 (2016) 200 m – 22.66 (2016) 400 m – 51.67 (2012)[3]
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Kazakhstan Asian Indoor Championships 2016 Doha 60 m 2018 Tehran 4×400 m 2018 Tehran 60 m 2012 Hangzhou 60 m

Personal life

Zyabkina took up athletics in 2002 following her parents. Her father Viktor Zyabkin was a member of the Soviet national 4 × 100 m relay team. Her mother Oksana Zelinskaya competed for the Soviet Union in triple jump and was an Asian champion in this event. Zyabkina debuted internationally in 2010. She has degrees in sports education from the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and in English-Russian translation from the Turan University.^[2]

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Kazakhstan
2009	World Youth Championships	Brixen, Italy	32nd (h)	200 m	12.38
2010	Asian Junior Championships	Hanoi, Vietnam	3rd	200 m	24.55
			–	4 × 100 m relay	DQ
	Asian Games	Guangzhou, China	18th (h)	100 m	12.07
			–	4 × 100 m relay	DNF
2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	31st (h)	200 m	24.09
2012	Asian Indoor Championships	Hangzhou, China	3rd	60 m	7.44
	World Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	32nd (h)	60 m	7.55
	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	38th (h)	200 m	23.49
2013	Asian Championships	Pune, India	1st	200 m	23.62
			4th	4 × 400 m relay	3:36.09
	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	44th (h)	200 m	24.47
2014	Asian Games	Incheon, South Korea	4th	100 m	11.67
			7th	200 m	23.69
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	43.90
2015	IAAF World Relays	Nassau, Bahamas	6th (B)	4 × 100 m relay	44.89
	Asian Championships	Wuhan, China	2nd	100 m	11.34
			1st	200 m	23.09
			–	4 × 100 m relay	DQ
	Universiade	Gwangju, South Korea	1st	100 m	11.23
			1st	200 m	22.77
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	44.28
	World Championships	Beijing, China	18th (sf)	100 m	11.19
			12th (sf)	200 m	22.77
2016	Asian Indoor Championships	Doha, Qatar	1st	60 m	7.27
	World Indoor Championships	Portland, United States	31st (h)	60 m	7.47
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	50th (h)	100 m	11.69
			45th (h)	200 m	23.34
			–	4 × 100 m relay	DQ
2017	Asian Championships	Bhubaneswar, India	1st	100 m	11.39
			1st	200 m	23.10
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	43.53
	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	32nd (h)	200 m	23.66
			13th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	45.47
	Universiade	Taipei, Taiwan	4th	100 m	11.49
			2nd (h)	4 × 100 m relay	44.141
	Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	1st	60 m	7.32
2018	Asian Indoor Championships	Tehran, Iran	2nd	60 m	7.39
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:41.67
	Asian Games	Jakarta, Indonesia	13th (sf)	100 m	11.86
			–	200 m	DQ
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	43.82

¹Disqualified in the final