Anastasia Prokopenko

Modern pentathlete Anastasiya Prokopenko has represented Belarus as a three-time Olympic Summer Games participant and is a bronze medal-winner.

Having competed professionally in pentathlons since 1999, Prokopenko won her first gold medal at the World Youth Championships during 2001, held in Upsala, Sweden. Since then she has gone on to take home a collection of medals across both youth and junior events, including a further two silver and two gold medals at the 2003 and 2006 Junior European Championships in Portugal and the Czech Republic. After making her senior pentathlon debut back in 1999 at the finals of the International Meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, Prokopenko went on to become a renowned competitor across the pentathlon sporting scene, winning an impressive collection of eight bronze, six silver and a spectacular nine gold medals internationally, in both individual and team events. Of her more recent achievements, in 2018 Prokopenko became a pentathlon world champion when she won gold in both the team-relay and the individual event at the World Modern Pentathlon Championships, held in Mexico City.

Also an Olympic medal-winner, in 2008 Prokopenko represented Belarus at the Beijing Summer Olympic Games where she won bronze in the women’s competition. She has since gone on to compete at the 2012 London Olympics where she finished in sixth position, setting a world record in the combined running and shooting, and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.