Yelena Soboleva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yelena Soboleva

Russian distance runner

Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1982

Place of Birth: Bryansk, Bryansk Oblast, Russia

Profession: athletics competitor, middle-distance runner

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Yelena Vladimirovna Soboleva (Russian: ????? ???????????? ????????, born 3 August 1982 in Bryansk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian former middle-distance runner who specialized in the 1500 metres. In February 2008 she established a new world indoor record of 3:58.05 minutes in a race in Moscow, and in March 2008 she beat her own world record in Valencia.
She won a silver medal at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow. During the Russian Indoor meeting in Moscow in January 2008, she set a new national record in the women's mile run with a time of 4:20.21 minutes, which was the third fastest of all-time.
She also holds the national indoor record for 800 m, set in Moscow during the 2008 season. After a two-year doping ban from 2007, she returned to the sport in 2011, but retired after the 2013 season.