Nataliya Pyhyda

Nataliya Pyhyda (; born 30 January 1981) is a Ukrainian track and field sprinter who specializes in the 200 and 400 metres. Her personal best times are 22.82 seconds and 50.62 seconds (2015), respectively.

Career As a junior, she finished sixth at the 2000 World Junior Championships. Her personal best at the time was 52.87 seconds, achieved in August 2000 in Kyiv. She improved it to 52.76 seconds in July 2003 in Kyiv. At the 2003 World Championships she competed in the 4 × 400 metres relay without reaching the final. She finished fifth in the 200 metres event at the 2004 World Indoor Championships. In 2004, she greatly improved her personal bests in both her events, running the 200 metres in 23.04 seconds in July in Madrid and the 400 metres in 51.44 seconds in July in Yalta. She also finished fifth in the individual event. At the 2005 Summer Universiade she finished fourth in the 200 metres and won a bronze medal in the relay. At the 2006 European Championships she reached the semi-final of the individual event, At the end of the season she was chosen for Europe's relay team at the 2006 IAAF World Cup. The team finished fourth.

In 2007, she failed to run a single sub-24 or sub-52 second race. but won a relay gold medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade. She reached the 400 metres semi-final at the 2008 World Indoor Championships, and at the 2008 Olympics she reached the semi-final of the 200 metres, and failed to reach the final in the 4 × 400 metres relay.

In the summer of 2008 she had smashed her 200 best time, running in 22.82 seconds in Kyiv in June. She was suspended from the sport from August 2009 to August 2011. She was part of the Ukrainian team that won the silver medal at the 2014 European Athletics Championship.