Oksana Kondratyeva

Oksana Yurevna Kondratyeva (; born 22 November 1985) is a Russian track and field athlete competing in the hammer throw. Her personal best of ranks her in the all-time top ten of the event. She represented Russia at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, placing seventh.

She is a four-time participant at the Summer Universiade, with her best performance coming in 2013, when she won the silver medal. She holds the title of Russia Master of Sport – International Class. She is the daughter of hammer thrower Yuriy Sedykh and sprinter Lyudmila Kondratyeva.

Career

Early life and career Raised in Moscow, she is the daughter of two Soviet Olympic champions: 1976 and 1980 Olympic hammer throw champion Yuriy Sedykh and 100 metres Olympic champion Lyudmila Kondratyeva. Her half-sister Alexia Sedykh is also an international hammer thrower and was the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics champion competing for France. Oksana Kondratyeva became a member of the Moscow Youth Sports Club and began competing in the hammer in her late teens.

In 2004, she placed third in the Russian junior category and was third in the Moscow regional championship. She won the Moscow under-23 competition the following year, clearing sixty metres for the first time, and ranked seventh nationally in the national winter throws and Russian Athletics Championships. Her best performance in 2005 was a throw of for fifth at the Russian Athletics Cup. She competed sparingly in 2006 while studying, but managed to win the Russian under-23 title. She had a new best at the 2007 Russian Winter Throwing event, placing third with a mark of . This earned her a spot at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, although with a throw of she was well below par on her international debut.

First senior competitions Kondratyeva entered the full senior ranks in 2008 and continued to improve, first throwing for fourth at the Brothers Znamensky Memorial then as runner-up at the Moscow Championships. She won at the Kuts Memorial, but ranked seventh at the national championships.

Her upward trend continued into 2010, when she threw over 68 metres several times and placed second at the Russian Winter Championships and third in her group at the 2010 European Cup Winter Throwing. This made her the 14th best hammer thrower globally that year. Despite this, she was below sixty metres and out of the top eight at that year's national championships. Kondratyeva cleared seventy metres on numerous occasions in 2012, although improved national depth meant she did not place much higher: she had a best of in Moscow in June, but her mark of at the Russian Championships left her in fifth place. She ranked twentieth in the world that year internationally.

2013 World Championships Kondratyeva, after five years in the senior ranks, finally reached international level performances. She began with a win at the Yuliya Pechonkina Prizes meet then was victorious at the Russian Cup with . A throw of to win at the Znamensky Memorial put her at the top of the yearly rankings. This moved her up to sixth place on the all-time women's hammer throw lists. Her fourth consecutive appearance at the Summer Universiade (held on home soil in Kazan) brought her first international medal in the form of a silver behind American Jeneva McCall. A third place at the Russian Championships with a mark of meant she was chosen to represent Russia at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow.

At the beginning of 2014 she ranked in the top eight at the Golden Grand Prix and World Challenge Beijing meetings.

Personal bests Hammer throw – (2013)

International competition record