Nastassia Shuliak
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Nastassia Shuliak is a track and field
sprint athlete
who competes internationally for Belarus
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Shuliak represented Belarus at the 2008 Summer Olympics
in Beijing
. She competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Yuliya Nestsiarenka, Aksana Drahun and Anna Bagdanovich
. In their first round heat they placed sixth with a time of 43.69 seconds, which was the 9th time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they failed to qualify for the final.
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
sprint athlete
Sprint (race)
Sprints are short running events in athletics and track and field. Races over short distances are among the oldest running competitions. The first 13 editions of the Ancient Olympic Games featured only one event—the stadion race, which was a race from one end of the stadium to the other...
who competes internationally for Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
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Shuliak represented Belarus at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Belarus at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Belarus attended the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. A team of 181 athletes competed in 28 different sports.-Medalists:- Archery:Belarus sent two archers to the Olympics, one in the men's competition and one in the women's.Men...
in Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
. She competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Yuliya Nestsiarenka, Aksana Drahun and Anna Bagdanovich
Anna Bagdanovich
Anna Bagdanovich , also transliterated as Hanna Bahdanovich, is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Belarus....
. In their first round heat they placed sixth with a time of 43.69 seconds, which was the 9th time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they failed to qualify for the final.