Alena Abramchuk

Alena Abramchuk
Born	(1988-02-14) February 14, 1988 Stolin District, Brest Region, Belarus
Occupation	Athlete (Shot putter)
Known for	Bronze medalist at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships

Alena Vasilyeuna Abramchuk, born Kapiets (; 14 February 1988), is a Belarusian athlete who competes in track and field, with a focus on shot put. She secured the bronze medal at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships, achieving a personal record of , established in 2013.

Career

Abramchuk started her national athletic career during her teenage years and made her international debut at the 2006 World Junior Championships, where she competed in both shot put and discus throw. In 2007, she earned silver medals in shot put at the European Athletics Junior Championships and the under-23 category of the European Cup Winter Throwing, while also finishing fifth at the Military World Games. She pursued studies in physical education at A.S. Pushkin Brest State University.

After 2007, Abramchuk concentrated exclusively on shot put, winning silver medals again at the European Cup Winter Throwing in both 2008 and 2009, improving her personal best to by 2009. That year, she also took home three bronze medals from the European Team Championships, Summer Universiade, and European U23 Championships. In 2011, she broke into the top twenty worldwide shot putters with a mark of and claimed her inaugural national indoor title as well as an international victory at the European Cup Winter Throwing.

Her first appearance on the IAAF Diamond League stage came in Shanghai in 2011. Early in 2012, she improved her performance to , maintaining a position among the world’s top twenty athletes. Despite this progress, she experienced early exits from major competitions that year. In January 2013, Abramchuk surpassed the nineteen-meter mark for the first time and earned a bronze medal at the European Indoor Championships—the first time she reached a major championship podium. Throughout that season, she became national champion both indoors and outdoors, placed second behind Russia’s Yevgeniya Kolodko at the European Cup Winter Throwing, and achieved multiple top-five finishes on the Diamond League circuit. Her best throw of that year ranked her among the finalists at the World Championships.

In 2014, Abramchuk advanced to the final round at the European Athletics Championships but was eliminated early during the World Indoor Championships. She once more finished runner-up to Kolodko at the European Cup Winter Throwing. At the 2015 European Indoor Championships, she narrowly missed out on a medal by finishing fourth. That same year, she recorded a personal best in discus throw with , securing her first national title in that event; however, she did not participate in the World Championships.

National titles

• Belarusian Athletics Championships
  • Shot put: 2013
  • Discus throw: 2015
• Belarusian Indoor Championships
  • Shot put: 2011, 2013, 2014

International competitions

2006	World Junior Championships	Beijing, China	17th (q)	Shot put	14.77 m
			19th (q)	Discus throw	44.77 m
2007	European Cup Winter Throwing (U23)	Yalta, Ukraine	2nd	Shot put	15.74 m
	European Junior Championships	Hengelo, Netherlands	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	2nd	Shot put	16.69 m
2009	European Cup Winter Throwing (U23)	Los Realejos, Spain	2nd	Shot put	16.36 m
	European Team Championships 1st League	Bergen, Norway	3rd	Shot put	17.08 m
	Universiade	Belgrade, Serbia	3rd	Shot put	17.48 m
	European U23 Championships	Kaunas, Lithuania	3rd	Shot put	17.72 m