Russian sprinter
Kseniya Aksyonova (third from right) in 2012
Kseniya Aleksandrovna Aksyonova (née Ustalova) (Russian: Ксения Александровна Аксенова; born 14 January 1988 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian track and field sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres.
She has won gold medals in the 4 × 400 metres relay with Russia in European competition in the junior (2007), under-23 (2009) and senior (2010) levels. She won the silver medal in the individual 400 m at the 2010 European Athletics Championships with a personal best run of 49.92 seconds. She won the relay gold at the 2011 Summer Universiade and won her first global level medal with a relay bronze at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Ustalova began 2013 with an indoor best 51.31 seconds to win the Russian indoor title.[1]
International competitions
Representing
Russia
Year |
Competition |
Venue |
Position |
Event |
Notes
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2007
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European Junior Championships
|
Hengelo, Netherlands
|
2nd
|
400 m
|
52.92
|
1st
|
4 × 400 m relay
|
3:33.95
|
2009
|
European U23 Championships
|
Kaunas, Lithuania
|
1st
|
400 m
|
51.74
|
1st
|
4 × 400 m relay
|
3:27.59
|
2010
|
European Team Championships
|
Bergen, Norway
|
1st
|
400 m
|
51.79
|
1st
|
4 × 400 m relay
|
3:23.76
|
European Championships
|
Barcelona, Spain
|
2nd
|
400 m
|
49.92
|
1st
|
4 × 400 m relay
|
3:26.89
|
2011
|
Universiade
|
Shenzhen, China
|
1st
|
4 × 400 m relay
|
3:27.16
|
2012
|
World Indoor Championships
|
Istanbul, Turkey
|
DSQ (3rd)
|
4 × 400 m relay
|
3:29.55
|
2013
|
European Indoor Championships
|
Gothenburg, Sweden
|
5th (h)
|
400 m
|
52.23[2]
|
Universiade
|
Kazan, Russia
|
1st
|
400 m
|
50.60
|
1st
|
4 × 400 m relay
|
3:26.61
|
2015
|
World Championships
|
Beijing, China
|
4th
|
4 × 400 m relay
|
3:24.84
|
Competing as Authorised Neutral Athlete
|
2018
|
European Championships
|
Berlin, Germany
|
27th (h)
|
400 m
|
53.37
|
2019
|
World Championships
|
Doha, Qatar
|
26th (h)
|
400 m
|
51.99
|
References
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- 1981:
Soviet Union (Ambrazienė, Baskakova, Alyoshina, Nazarova)
- 1983:
Soviet Union (Krylova, Borisova, Didilenko, Pinigina)
- 1985:
Soviet Union (Navickaitė, Zvyagintseva, Korban, Alekseyeva)
- 1987:
United States (Fridy, Mitchell, Stevens, Howard)
- 1989:
United States (Mondie, Kaiser, Miles, Dendy)
- 1991:
United States (Demas, Downing, Teri Smith, Malone)
- 1993:
United States (Irving, Malone, Warren, Collins)
- 1995:
Russia (Sotnikova, Khrushcheleva, Andreyeva, Chebykina)
- 1997:
Russia (Sharova, Goncharenko, Bakhvalova, Kotlyarova)
- 1999:
United States (Brown-Moore, Nelson, Barber, Reid)
- 2001:
United States (Barber, Carolyn Jackson, Washington, Barber)
- 2003:
Russia (Kondratyeva, Firova, Lavshuk, Lisnichenko)
- 2005:
Russia (Ovchinnikova, Migunova, Kostetskaya, Nazarova)
- 2007:
Ukraine (Pyhyda, Yefremova, Zavhorodnya, Shcherbak)
- 2009:
Canada (Muir, Nelson, Hyacinthe, Akinsulie)
- 2011:
Russia (Karnaushchenko, Migunova, Ustalova, Topilskaya)
- 2013:
Russia (Tamkova, Kotlyarova, Renzhina, Ustalova)
- 2015:
Poland (Hołub, Szczęsna, Linkiewicz, Święty)
- 2017:
Poland (Hołub, Baumgart, Wyciszkiewicz, Święty, Gaworska* , Dąbrowska*)
- 2019:
Ukraine (Mykolenko, Holienieva, Klymiuk, Melnyk)
- 2021:
Poland (Bartnowska, Łozowska, Koczanowa, Formella, Wosztyl*, Granaszewska*)
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- 1997:
Great Britain (Jamison, Sloane, Mitchell, Curbishley)
- 1999:
Russia (Levina, Yemelyanova, Grishakova, Pospelova)
- 2001:
Great Britain (Gear, Meadows, Duncan, Thieme)
- 2003:
Russia (Gushchina, Ivanova, Gulumyan, Firova)
- 2005:
Russia (Ovchinnikova, Kochetova, Migunova, Zaytseva)
- 2007:
Russia (Shulikova, Zadorina, Novikova, Litvinova)
- 2009:
Russia (Sedova, Zadorina, Vdovina, Ustalova, Mochalina†)
- 2011:
Russia (Subbotina, Yefimova, Terekhova, Topilskaya)
- 2013:
Poland (Gorzkowska, Hołub, Karczmarczyk, Święty)
- 2015:
Great Britain (Bundy-Davies, Clark, Ohuruogu, McAslan)
- 2017:
Poland (Muraszewska, Janowicz, Karaś, Gaworska)
- 2019:
Poland (Łozowska, Wosztyl, Widawska, Kaczmarek)
- 2021:
Czech Republic (Vondrová, Jíchová, Veselá, Malíková, Holubářová†)
- 2023:
France (Thery-Demarque, Delaunay-Belleville, Toriel, Maraval, Lasserre†)
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† denotes athletes who took part in heats only |