Yelyzaveta Bryzhina

Yelyzaveta Viktorivna Bryzhina (; born 18 November 1989,

Personal life Bryzhina is the daughter of the successful Soviet athletes Olha Bryzhina and Viktor Bryzhin, and sister of Anastasiia Bryzgina.

Bryzhina was a student at the Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University on a sports scholarship.

Career Yelizaveta and her mother Olha have achieved the same best performance over 200 m of 22.44 seconds.

Bryzhina was part (with Nataliya Pohrebnyak, Mariya Ryemyen and Olesya Povh) of the Ukrainian women's 4 × 100 m relay, that won gold during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29, the fastest time in the world that year. Bryzhina won silver in the (individual) 200 m during this championship when she ran 22.44 (gold went to France's Myriam Soumare).

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she and her teammates Olesya Povh, Mariya Ryemyen and Hrystyna Stuy took the bronze medals in the 4 × 100 metres relay, setting a new national record.

She served a two-year doping ban for the use of the banned anabolic steroid drostanolone, having tested positive at the 2013 World Championships. The ban lasted from 15 August 2013 to 27 August 2015.