Nataliya Dobrynska (; born 29 May 1982)Наталя Добринська збирається привезти медаль із Пекіна. Retrieved on 2012-08-09. is a retired Ukrainian athlete who competed in the combined events. She is the 2008 Beijing Olympic champion and also holds the heptathlon best in the shot put. Dobrynska was the world indoor record holder for the pentathlon with a score of 5013 points until March 2023.
Career She competed in the 2004 Olympics, finishing eighth. She won the silver medal in the pentathlon at the 2004 World Indoor Championships and the bronze medal at the 2005 European Indoor Championships. She finished sixth in the heptathlon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. At the 2007 European Indoor Championships she finished fifth.
She won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Despite being one of the favourites in the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Dobrynska finished fourth just missing out on the medals. She returned to the podium at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, taking second place in the pentathlon behind reigning heptathlon world champion Jessica Ennis.
Dobrynska competed at the 2010 Hypo-Meeting in May, but she was in sub-par form and managed only a score of 6023 for seventh place (over 600 points behind Jessica Ennis' winning mark).Sampaolo, Diego (2010-05-30). Clay and Ennis beat the rain to take Götzis titles – IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-12.36th Hypo-Meeting. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-12. In spite of this she proved herself as a contender to the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in July. After the first day, Dobrynska ran a 200 m best of 24.23 seconds and was in second place – 110 points behind Ennis, who led the competition.Jessica Ennis leads after European heptathlon day one . BBC Sport (2010-07-30). Retrieved on 2010-08-12. The following day she scored a best in the javelin (49.25 m) and was 18 points behind Ennis with one event remaining. She finished the competition with an 800 m run of 2:12.06, another personal best. Her total score of 6778 points was her best ever performance and beyond Carolina Klüft's championship record. However, Ennis took the gold, also setting a personal best, leaving Dobrynska with the silver medal – her first podium finish at the European Athletics Championships.Ennis smashes championship record in epic finale. European Athletics (2010-07-31). Retrieved on 2010-08-12.Jessica Ennis claims European heptathlon gold. BBC Sport (2010-07-31). Retrieved on 2010-08-12.
She returned to competition at the 2010 Décastar meeting in September and was the runner-up behind Tatyana Chernova, having a total of 6309 points for the event.van Kuijen, Hans (2010-09-19). Suarez and Chernova prevail in Talence – IAAF World Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-19. The following year she finished in fifth place at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, getting a total of 6539 points and setting personal bests in the hurdles (13.43 seconds) and 800 metres (2:11.34 minutes).
At the beginning of the 2012 season she won the Ukrainian indoor title with a national record score of 4880 points.Dobrynska lays down the gauntlet to Chernova and Ennis at Ukraine champs. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2012-02-25. She produced an even better performance at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Although defending champion Ennis was the pre-event favourite, Dobrynska had a consistent tally, including personal bests in the long jump (6.57 m) and 800 m (2:11.15 min) to become the first woman ever to score over 5000 points for the indoor pentathlon. Her world record mark of 5013 points bettered Irina Belova's twenty-year-old score from 1992.Arcoleo, Laura (2012-03-09). Pentathlon World Record! – Dobrynska tallies 5013 points in Istanbul! UPDATED. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-04-22. Later that month, Dobrynska's coach and husband, Dmitry Polyakov, died of cancer.Nataliya Dobrynska's coach Dmitry Polyakov dies. European Athletics (2012-03-26). Retrieved on 2012-04-22. Dobrynska stood for election to the Ukrainian Parliament in the October 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election as a candidate for the Party of Regions in Ukraine's 11th electoral district (first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in her native Vinnytsia Oblast.Московский комсомолец:Рада як ніколи Moskovsky Komsomolets:Council as ever , Korrespondent.net (13 September 2012) However, she failed to win the seat, finishing in fifth place with 6.45% of the votes.Одномандатний виборчий округ №11 Single-mandate constituency № 11, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
Dobrynska announced her retirement from the sport in 2013. A special ceremony was held at half-time during a Ukrainian Premier League match between Dynamo Kyiv and FC Illichivets Mariupol at the Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kyiv on 20 October 2013, marking her retirement from athletics. It was the venue she trained and competed at for many years and set her first Ukrainian record.
Achievements
2003European U23 ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland5thHeptathlon5798 pts2004World Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary2ndPentathlon4727 ptsHypo-Meeting Götzis, Austria3rdHeptathlon6387 ptsOlympic GamesAthens, Greece8thHeptathlon6225 pts2005European Indoor ChampionshipsMadrid, Spain 3rdPentathlon4667 ptsHypo-Meeting Götzis, Austria7thHeptathlon6299 pts2007European Indoor ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom5thPentathlon4739 ptsHypo-Meeting Götzis, Austria10thHeptathlon6112 pts2008World Indoor Championships Valencia, Spain4thPentathlon4742 ptsHypo-Meeting Götzis, Austria9thHeptathlon6268 ptsOlympic Games Beijing, China1stHeptathlon6733 pts 2009Hypo-Meeting Götzis, Austria1stHeptathlon6558 ptsWorld Championships Berlin, Germany4thHeptathlon6444 pts2010World Indoor Championships Doha, Qatar2ndPentathlon4851 ptsHypo-Meeting Götzis, Austria7thHeptathlon6023 ptsEuropean Championships Barcelona, Spain2ndHeptathlon6778 pts PB2011World ChampionshipsDaegu, South Korea5thHeptathlon6539 pts2012World Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey1stPentathlon5013 pts Olympic GamesLondon, United Kingdom –HeptathlonDNF
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