Nataliya Dobrynska

Date of Birth: 29.05.1982

Place of Birth. Education. Born in Vinnytsia. Graduated from Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University.

General Information. She competed for 'Kolos' - 'Dynamo', Vinnytsia.

First coach - Viktor Postemskyi.

Awards and Achievements. Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine.

2004 - World Championship - 2nd place.

2005 - World Championship - 3rd place.

2007 - European Championship - 6th place.

Champion of the XXIX Olympic Games in Beijing 2008. She won gold in the heptathlon with 6733 points. Silver went to Ukrainian Lyudmila Blonska (6700 points), bronze to American Hyleas Fountain (6619).

2009 - World Championship - 4th place.

2010 - World Championship - 2nd place.

2010 - European Championship - 2nd place.

2011 - World Championship - 5th place.

2012 - World Championship, heptathlon - 1st place, world record.

On October 27, 2013, she officially announced the end of her sports career.

About the Heptathlon. A sport that includes competitions in seven disciplines of athletics. The competitions take place over two days. The result of each participant is determined by a combination of their performances in individual disciplines. A special points system is applied in each discipline, and the results are summed up. The women's heptathlon is held in the summer season, and the men's in the winter season.

The women's heptathlon includes: on the first day - 100m hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200m run, on the second day - long jump, javelin throw, 800m run.

The men's heptathlon includes: on the first day - 60m run, long jump, shot put, high jump, on the second day - 60m hurdles, pole vault, 1000m run.

Political Career. From 2010 to 2015 - Deputy of the Vinnytsia Regional Council, she was elected from the list of the Party of Regions.

Private Life. On October 4, 2008, she married her coach Dmytro Polyakov. In March 2012 he passed away from cancer.

On June 1, 2014, she married Kostyantyn Yevtushenko (1983), businessman, owner of the investment group Merit Investment Group. The couple has two children, son Derek (born 2014) and daughter Alice (born 2016).

27.05.2022