{{short description|Belarusian track and field athlete|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox sportsperson | image= | image_size= | caption= | birth_date= {{birth date and age|1988|2|14|df=y}} | birth_place= Davyd-Haradok | height={{height|m=1.82}} | weight={{convert|95|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}} | country= {{BLR}} | sport =Track and field | event=Shot put | medaltemplates = {{Medal|Competition|European Indoor Championships}} {{Medal|Bronze|2013 Gothenburg|Shot put}} }}
'''Alena Vasilyeuna Abramchuk''', née '''Kapiets''' ({{langx|be|Алена Васілеўна Абрамчук (Капец)}}; born 14 February 1988)<ref>[http://www.sportbrest.by/kandidaty-brestskoj-oblasti-na-olimpijskie-igry/item/1415 Абрамчук (Копец) Елена] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208142334/http://www.sportbrest.by/kandidaty-brestskoj-oblasti-na-olimpijskie-igry/item/1415 |date=2015-12-08 }}. Sport Brest. Retrieved on 2015-12-02.</ref> is a Belarusian track and field athlete who competes in the shot put. She was the bronze medallist at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships. Her personal best is {{T&Fcalc|19.24}}, set in 2013.
==Career== She began competing at national level as a teenager and made her international debut at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics, competing in both the shot put and discus throw events.<ref name=IAAF>[http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/belarus/alena-abramchuk-211593#honours Alena Abramchuk]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-12-02.</ref> Her first international medals followed in 2007 with silver medals in the shot put at the 2007 European Athletics Junior Championships and in the under-23 section at the 2007 European Cup Winter Throwing. She was also fifth at the Military World Games.<ref name=Tilas>[http://www.tilastopaja.org/db/atf.php?Sex=2&ID=36617 Alena Abramchuk]. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2015-12-02.</ref> She began attending A.S. Pushkin Brest State University, studying in the physical education department.<ref name=BRSU>[http://www.brsu.by/en/content/march-8-present-elena-kopets March 8 Present from Elena Kopets]. Brest State University. Retrieved on 2015-12-02.</ref>
Abramchuk focused more on shot put after 2007 and repeated her under-23 winter silver medal with a personal best of {{T&Fcalc|16.69}} at the 2008 European Cup Winter Throwing, then again at the 2009 edition. She improved her best to {{T&Fcalc|17.97}} that season and claimed a trio of bronze medals at the European Team Championships, Summer Universiade and the European Athletics U23 Championships.<ref name=Tilas/> She added two centimetres to her best in 2010, but did not compete internationally.<ref name=IAAF/> She established herself among the world's top throwers at the start of 2011, throwing a best of {{T&Fcalc|18.82}} in Minsk, which ranked her in the top twenty shot putters that season.<ref>[http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/tafn-lists?list_id=4&sex_id=W&yyear=2011 2011 World Comprehensive List - Women] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208223921/http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/tafn-lists?list_id=4&sex_id=W&yyear=2011 |date=2015-12-08 }}. ''Track & Field News'' (2012). Retrieved on 2015-12-02.</ref>
Abramchuk won her first national title indoors in February 2011 then claimed her first international win at the 2011 European Cup Winter Throwing, beating France's Jessica Cérival. She made her debut on the IAAF Diamond League circuit in Shanghai and ranked fifth at the Universiade.<ref name=Tilas/> Another best of {{T&Fcalc|18.90}} the following February saw her again ranked in the world's top twenty in 2012.<ref>[http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/tafn-lists?list_id=4&sex_id=W&yyear=2012 2012 World Comprehensive List - Women] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623000939/http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/tafn-lists?list_id=4&sex_id=W&yyear=2012 |date=2013-06-23 }}. ''Track & Field News'' (2013). Retrieved on 2015-12-02.</ref> She failed to match this form in major competition, being eliminated at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships and placing fifth at the 2012 European Cup Winter Throwing.<ref name=IAAF/>
She threw beyond nineteen metres for the first time in January 2013 with a mark of {{T&Fcalc|19.06}}. A bronze medal at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships – her first podium finish at a major championship – marked a new high.<ref name=BRSU/> She was the national champion indoors and outdoors that year and regularly threw beyond eighteen metres in competition. She placed second to Russia's Yevgeniya Kolodko at the 2013 European Cup Winter Throwing and had several top five finishes on the 2013 IAAF Diamond League circuit.<ref name=Tilas/> Her best that year was {{T&Fcalc|19.24}}, set in Minsk, and she was a finalist at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics.<ref name=IAAF/>
In the 2014 season she was eliminated in the qualifiers of the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, but made the final of the 2014 European Athletics Championships, coming in ninth place. At the 2014 European Cup Winter Throwing she was again beaten by Kolodko of Russia. She came close to another continental bronze at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships, beating narrowly beaten into fourth by Radoslava Mavrodieva. She set a best in the discus of {{T&Fcalc|55.16}} in taking her first national title in that year, but missed the 2015 World Championships in Athletics.<ref name=Tilas/>
==National titles== *Belarusian Athletics Championships **Shot put: 2013 **Discus throw: 2015 *Belarusian Indoor Championships **Shot put: 2011, 2013, 2014
==International competitions== {| {{AchievementTable|Event=yes}} |- |rowspan=2|2006 |rowspan=2|World Junior Championships |rowspan=2|Beijing, China |17th (q) |Shot put |14.77 m |- |19th (q) |Discus throw |44.77 m |- |rowspan=4|2007 |European Cup Winter Throwing (U23) |Yalta, Ukraine |bgcolor=silver|2nd |Shot put |15.74 m |- |rowspan=2|European Junior Championships |rowspan=2|Hengelo, Netherlands |bgcolor=silver|2nd |Shot put |16.10 m |- |14th |Discus throw |45.84 m |- |Military World Games |Hyderabad, India |5th |Shot put |14.91 m |- |2008 |European Cup Winter Throwing (U23) |Split, Croatia |bgcolor=silver|2nd |Shot put |16.69 m |- |rowspan=4|2009 |European Cup Winter Throwing (U23) |Los Realejos, Spain |bgcolor=silver|2nd |Shot put |16.36 m |- |European Team Championships 1st League |Bergen, Norway |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |Shot put |17.08 m |- |Universiade |Belgrade, Serbia |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |Shot put |17.48 m |- |European U23 Championships |Kaunas, Lithuania |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |Shot put |17.72 m |- |rowspan=3|2011 |European Indoor Championships |Paris, France |9th (q) |Shot put |17.11 m |- |European Cup Winter Throwing |Sofia, Bulgaria |bgcolor=gold|1st |Shot put |17.71 |- |Universiade |Shenzhen, China |5th |Shot put |17.07 m |- |2012 |World Indoor Championships |Istanbul, Turkey |9th (q) |Shot put |17.80 m |- |rowspan=3|2013 |European Indoor Championships |Gothenburg, Sweden |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |Shot put |18.85 m |- |European Cup Winter Throwing |Castellón de la Plana, Spain |bgcolor=silver|2nd |Shot put |18.18 m |- |World Championships |Moscow, Russia |12th |Shot put |17.70 m |- |rowspan=3|2014 |World Indoor Championships |Sopot, Poland |10th (q) |Shot put |17.73 m |- |European Cup Winter Throwing |Leiria, Portugal |bgcolor=silver|2nd |Shot put |18.58 m |- |European Championships |Zurich, Switzerland |9th |Shot put |17.65 m |- |rowspan=2|2015 |European Indoor Championships |Prague, Czech Republic |4th |Shot put |17.63 m |- |European Cup Winter Throwing |Leiria, Portugal |5th |Shot put |17.11 m |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{World Athletics}} * {{Olympics.com profile|alena-abramchuk}} * {{SR/Olympics profile|ab/yelena-abramchuk-1}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Abramchuk, Alena}} Category:Living people Category:1988 births Category:Belarusian women shot putters Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for Belarus Category:Belarusian State University alumni Category:Olympic athletes for Belarus Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Category:Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Category:FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Belarus Category:Competitors at the 2011 Summer Universiade Category:Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade Category:People from Stolin district Category:Sportspeople from Brest region