Anastasiya Rabchenyuk
Anastasiya Rabchenyuk (born 14 September 1983) is a Ukrainian track athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles. She was born in Ternivka, then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union (now in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine).
Rabchenyuk has been among the world’s top 400m hurdlers. Her notable results include 8th at the 2006 European Championships, 4th at the 2008 Olympic Games, 2nd at the 2008 World Athletics Final, and 7th at the 2009 World Championships.
In 2010 she suffered a muscle problem at the European Championships in Barcelona, ran her heat but did not reach the semi-finals, and did not compete that year.
In 2011 she made a strong comeback. She finished 5th at the World Championships in Daegu, with a season-best final time of 54.18. She began the year slowly, finishing 3rd at the Ukraine Cup in Yalta, but then won the ENEA Cup in Bydgoszcz (55.54) on June 3 and placed 3rd at the EAA Premium Meeting in Prague (55.74). She also ran 54.75 in the Donetsk Ukrainian Championship semi-final, placing her among Ukraine’s top performers that year.
At Daegu, she qualified from the heats with 55.08 and, in a very tough semi-final, finished 3rd in 55.06, earning a place in the final as the second-best non-qualifier. In the final she finished 5th with a season-best 54.18, improving on her 2009 Berlin showing.
Rabchenyuk has also competed at the 2007 World Championships (no final) and ran in the 4x400 metres relay at the 2009 World Championships. She won a bronze medal at the 2003 Universiade and a silver medal at the 2007 Universiade.
Her personal bests are 53.96 seconds in the 400m hurdles (2008 Olympics) and 52.64 seconds in the 400 metres (Kyiv, July 2006).
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 09:49 (CET).