Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova

Nastassia Siarheyeuna Mironchyk-Ivanova (Belarusian: Настасся Сяргееўна Мірончык-Іванова, born 13 April 1989) is a Belarusian long jumper. In 2011, she became known for missing the World Championships gold medal because of her hair style. Her pony-tail left a mark in the sand well behind her body's 6.90 m mark.^[1]

Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova

Mironchyk-Ivanova in 2020
Personal information
Born	(1989-04-13) 13 April 1989 (age 35) Slutsk
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Weight	53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
Country	Belarus
Sport	Athletics
Event	Long jump
Medal record World Championships 2011 Daegu Long jump European Indoor Championships 2019 Glasgow Long jump

On 25 November 2016 the IOC disqualified her from the 2012 Olympic Games and struck her results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of her doping sample from 2012.^[2]

She was upgraded from fourth at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics to the bronze medal position as a result of a doping ban against Russian Olga Kucherenko, who had originally won the silver.^[3]

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

Following the 2024 election, Mironchyk-Ivanova became a deputy of the House of Representatives of Belarus.^[5]

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Belarus
2008	World Junior Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	2nd	Long jump	6.46 m (-1.3 m/s)
2009	European U23 Championships	Kaunas, Lithuania	2nd	Long jump	6.76 m w (+4.7 m/s)
	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	11th	Long jump	6.29 m
2010	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	6th	Long jump	6.75 m
2011	European Indoor Championships	Paris, France	6th	Long jump	6.55 m
	European U23 Championships	Ostrava, Czech Republic	6th	Long jump	6.54 m w (+2.5 m/s)
	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	3rd	Long jump	6.74 m
2012	World Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	5th	Long jump	6.64 m
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	9th	Long jump	6.66 m
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland, United States	9th	Long jump	6.56 m
2018	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	5th	Long jump	6.58 m
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	2nd	Long jump	6.93 m
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	5th	Long jump	6.76 m
2021	European Indoor Championships	Toruń, Poland	4th	Long jump	6.72 m
	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	14th (q)	Long jump	6.55 m

References

• Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova at World Athletics

1. Incredible: Nastassia has lost the long jump gold and $60,000 dollars because of a hairstyle Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine, Gianni Merlo, La Gazzetta dello Sport, 2011-09-03.
2. "IOC sanctions seven athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008 and London 2012" (PDF). IOC. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
3. Palmer, Dan (2017-02-01). Long jumper Kucherenko banned for two years, reports claim. Inside the Games. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
4. "Team results" (PDF). 2019 European Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 October 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
5. "Сергеенко, Марзалюк, Шевцов, Шпаковский, Барсуков, Гигин — кого еще пустили в «палатку»". Reform.by [be] (in Russian). February 26, 2024.