Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko

Hanna Viktorivna Knyazyeva-Minenko, née Knyazyeva, (; ; born 25 September 1989) is a former Ukrainian and a current Israeli triple jumper and long jumper.

She established a personal best in August 2015 of 14.78 meters (m) in the triple jump while winning the silver medal at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics. She competed for her native Ukraine at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's triple jump event, coming in fourth with a jump of 14.56 m.

She immigrated to Israel and became an Israeli citizen in early 2013 on account of marriage to an Israeli citizen, and has represented Israel since then. She began training as an athlete when she was eight years old.

She married Soviet Kazakh-born Israeli former decathlon champion Anatoly Minenko. They reside in Israel. On 10 July 2008, she came in 4th in the triple jump at the 12th IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics in Bydgoszcz, Poland, with a distance of 13.61 m. She established a personal best in June 2012 of 14.71 m in the triple jump, 79 centimeters short of the world record, when she was 22 years old.

For Israel Knyazyeva-Minenko immigrated to Israel and became an Israeli citizen, on account of marriage to an Israeli citizen.

At the 77th Israeli Athletics Championships in early July 2013, she established a new Israeli record in winning the women's triple jump with a distance of 14.50 m. Knyazyeva-Minenko won a silver medal at the 2013 IAAF Diamond League competition in Paris, jumping 14.58 m in the triple jump. At the Sainsbury's Anniversary Games Diamond League competition in London on 26 July 2013, she won a bronze medal in the triple jump with a distance of 14.29 m, behind Jamaican Kimberly Williams and Russian Ekaterina Koneva.

At the 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on 15 August 2013, at age 23 in her first major event representing Israel, Knyazyeva-Minenko came in 6th in the triple jump, with a distance of 14.33 m, after posting a 14.46 m and coming in third in the qualifying round. She was the first Israeli to reach a World Championships final since Israeli Alex Averbukh in the pole vault, in 2007. In 2013, she held a women's triple jump ranking of No. 4 in the Diamond League series. The distance was a new personal best for the event, and eclipsed by six centimeters Sigal Gonen's previous Israeli record, which had stood for 28 years since 1986. Competing for Israel at the 2015 European Games on 21 June 2015, she won the triple jump portion of the Team Athletics event with a distance of 14.41 m; she also won a bronze medal for the team event.

She represented Israel at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, in August 2015.

Knyazyeva-Minenko represented Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the triple jump, at the age of 26. She jumped 14.68 m in the final, for fifth place, six centimeters behind the bronze medalist. Her fifth-place finish matched the best-ever finish for an Israeli in an Olympic athletics competition, established first by high jumper Konstantin Matusevich, at the 2000 Olympics.

In December 2024, Knyazyeva-Minenko announced her retirement from competitive sports.

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