Sviatlana Sudak is a Turkish

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 hammer throw

Hammer throw

The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...

er. She originally represented Belarus

Belarus

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Belarus

On 5 June 1994 she set a new world record with 67.34 metres. Unfortunately, this happened before the IAAF recognized world records in hammer throw for women, so when Mihaela Melinte

Mihaela Melinte

Mihaela Melinte is a Romanian hammer thrower. She holds the world junior record, and with 76.07 metres she held the world record until Tatyana Lysenko beat it in July 2005...

 threw 66.86 metres on 4 March 1995 she set the first official world record. http://www.athletix.org/Statistics/wrHTwomen.html In June the same year Olga Kuzenkova

Olga Kuzenkova

Olga Sergeyevna Kuzenkova is a Russian athlete, the first woman to throw the hammer more than 70 meters.She won gold in the women's hammer throw event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.She trained with Aleksandr Seleznyov.-Notes:...

 improved it to 68.14 metres. Sudak later improved her personal best to 69.80 metres, well behind Tatyana Lysenko

Tatyana Lysenko

Tatyana Viktorovna Lysenko is a Russian hammer thrower. She used to hold the world record with 77.80 metres, achieved on 15 August 2006 in Tallinn....

 who had set a new world record of 77.06 metres a week earlier.

In competitions, she finished fifth at the 1997 Summer Universiade

1997 Summer Universiade

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, ninth at the 1998 European Championships

1998 European Championships in Athletics

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, ninth at the 1999 World Championships

1999 World Championships in Athletics

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 and tenth at the 2000 Olympic Games. She also competed at the 2003 World Championships

2003 World Championships in Athletics

The 9th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held from 23 August to 31 August 2003 in the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.-Track:...

 and the 2004 Olympic Games

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Hammer Throw

The Women's Hammer Throw event at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Athens Olympic Stadium August 23 and August 25...

 without reaching the final round.

Turkey

She then changed nationality to Turkey. She competed at the 2007 World Championships

2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's hammer throw

The Women's Hammer Throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 28, 2007 and August 30, 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan...

 and the 2008 Olympic Games

Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's hammer throw

The Women's Hammer Throw event at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on 18–20 August at the Beijing National Stadium.The qualifying standards were 69.50 m and 67.00 m .-Medalists:-Schedule:...

 without reaching the final.

Her personal best throw was improved to 70.74 metres, in July 2008 in Minsk

Minsk

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