Anastasiya Prokopenko, nee Samusevich (; Łacinka: Nastassia Samusievič Prakapienka; born 20 September 1985) is a Belarusian modern pentathlete who competed at three Summer Olympics.

Career

In 2018, she was awarded the bronze medal of the women's competition at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, following the disqualification of Ukraine's Viktoriya Tereshchuk, due to a doping offense. She finished sixth in 2012. Prokopenko also set a world record time of 10:20.90 in the combined running and shooting segment.

Anastasiya Prokopenko

Prokopenko also won a team gold medal at the 2007 World Modern Pentathlon Championships in Berlin, Germany, along with her compatriots Tatsiana Mazurkevich and Hanna Vasilionak.

Anastasiya Prokopenko

At the 2018 World Modern Pentathlon Championships in Mexico City, Prokopenko won the world title in the women's individual event as well as in the Women's Relay event (together with compatriot Iryna Prasiantsova)

Anastasiya Prokopenko

References

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1985 births

Living people

Belarusian female modern pentathletes

Olympic modern pentathletes for Belarus

Modern pentathletes at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathletes at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathletes at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics

World Modern Pentathlon Championships medalists

People from Slutsk

Olympic bronze medalists for Belarus

Olympic medalists in modern pentathlon

Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Sportspeople from Minsk Region

20th-century Belarusian women

21st-century Belarusian women