Background
Julia was born on 15 June in 1979 in Brest, Brestskaya Voblasts', Belarus.
Yulia Nestsiarenka
athlete Master of Sports of Belarus of International Class
Julia was born on 15 June in 1979 in Brest, Brestskaya Voblasts', Belarus.
At Brest secondary school №14 Julia went in for track and fields. Yulia’s first victory was at a regional spartakiad in Vysokaye, a town in the Brest Region, where the seventh former won in 60-meter run and in the long jump. Then she studied at the Minsk Republic’s School of Olympic Reserve. In 2001, she graduated from the Brest State Pedagogical University with a diploma of a teacher of physical culture.
In 2001 and 2002, she worked as a teacher and specialist on methods of teaching at the Brest school of the higher sports skills, and from 2002, she was an athlete-instructor of the national track and field team of the Ministry of Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Belarus.
Yu. Nestsyarenka’s first important sports competition was in 2001 in Amsterdam (Netherlands), at the Junior European Championship where she placed sixth in the 100-meter run. Her other sports achievements included a silver medal at the Junior European Championship in 4x100 meter relay in 2002, an individual victory at the Belarus championship of the same year, setting the national record with other athletes of the Belarusian team in 4x100 meter relay at the international track and field competition in July of 2003. The same 2003 year she placed sixth as a member of the relay team at the world championship in Paris. In 2004, a year of Olympic Games, she was a success at the world indoor championship in Budapest (a bronze medal in the 60-meter run), won the Grand Prix series international tournament of the International Track and Field Association in Cyprus in the 100-meter run, where Yulia set a national record. She won at the Super Grand Prix series tournaments in Herakleion and Gateshead, at the Golden League tournament in Rome. However, her principal victory was at the Olympic Games in Athens in 100-metre run with 10.93 sec. result. That put an end to the tradition of U.S. women winning all final 100-meter runs starting from 1984 at five preceding Olympic Games.
Physical Characteristics:
Growth 176 cm
Weight 62 kg
Julia is married. Her husband is Dmitri Nesterenko is an athlete too, and an instructor in Brest regional high school of sports skills.
