Vivian Chukwuemeka

Vivian Chukwuemeka (born May 4, 1975) is a Nigerian shot putter. She also competes in discus throw and hammer throw, but not on world level.

She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the World Championships in 2003 and 2005 without reaching the finals. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Her personal best throw is 18.43 metres, achieved in April 2003 in Walnut. This is the African record.

She graduated from Azusa Pacific University in 2006 with a Bachelor of Social Work.

stats
Full name: Vivian Peters-Chukwuemeka
Gender: Female
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
Weight: 225 lbs (102 kg)
Born: May 4, 1975 in Kwale, OviaSouth-West, Edo, Nigeria
Affiliations: NCSDC, Abuja (NGR)
Country: NGR Nigeria

Gina Gershon

Gina L. Gershon (born June 10, 1962) is an American film and television actress, known for her roles in the films Cocktail (1988), Showgirls (1995), Bound (1996), and Face/Off (1997).

Gershon attended New York University, where she studied drama and child psychology. She also attended the Circle in the Square Professional Theater School in New York, working with David Mamet and Harold Guskin. She is one of the founding members of the New York-based theater group Naked Angels.

She has appeared on Broadway three times, as Sally Bowles in the revival of Cabaret, in the revival of the sex farce Boeing-Boeing, and is currently playing Rosie Alvarez in the Broadway revival of Bye Bye Birdie at the Roundabout Theatre Company.

Her first acting venues were stage appearances in Camille and The Substance of Fire. She had a cameo role in The Cars 1984 video Hello Again along side Andy Warhol. Her break came with a bit part in 1986's Pretty in Pink which led to more substantial roles in Sweet Revenge with Nancy Allen and Cocktail, with Tom Cruise and Elisabeth Shue. Gershon also worked in TV, with a recurring role on Melrose Place playing a Heidi Fleiss-esque Hollywood madame. She won critical acclaim for her portrayal of Nancy Sinatra in the made-for-TV biopic Sinatra. In 1996, she played Corky, an ex-con who gets mixed up in a lesbian affair with Jennifer Tilly, in the mobster flick Bound. The following year, she costarred with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in Face/Off.

Gershon is regarded as a gay icon because of her roles in movies such as Bound (in which she played a butch lesbian), Prey for Rock & Roll, and Showgirls (which is regarded as a camp classic). She was ranked #23 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2004.

Gershon played Jew's harp on "I Can't Decide", a song on the Scissor Sisters 2006 release Ta-Dah. She also played Jew's harp on the song "I Do It For Your Love", Paul Simon's collaboration with Herbie Hancock on his album Possibilities, and on "Maria" from her album In Search Of Cleo. On television, she has recurring roles on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm (as a Hasidic dry cleaner), Rescue Me, and the U.S. dramedy series Ugly Betty (as Italian cosmetics mogul Fabia, the rival of Wilhelmina Slater). She also has served as the voiceover for Major League Baseball's "I Live For This" promotional campaign.

Gershon also appears in Lenny Kravitz's music video entitled "Again". She and her brother Dan are the authors of the children's book Camp Creepy Time. On September 10, 2008, Gershon appeared in a video on funnyordie.com, parodying former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, titled "Gina Gershon Strips Down Sarah Palin" which she followed with "Gina Gershon Does Sarah Palin 2".
Gershon is set to guest-star on TBS' Glory Daze.

Betty Heidler

Betty Heidler (born 14 October 1983 in Berlin) is a German hammer thrower. She is living in Frankfurt now and member of the Eintracht Frankfurt athletes team. She is working for the German Federal Police where she is member of the sports support group and started studying Bachelor of Laws at the Fernuniversität Hagen in 2007.

She put in a dominant performance at the 2010 European Cup Winter Throwing with a winning mark of 72.48 m, beating her nearest rival by more than three metres.

Her personal best throw is 77.12 metres, achieved in August 2009 at the World Championships in Berlin. This is also the current German record.



statics
Full name: Betty Heidler
Gender: Female
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
Weight: 179 lbs (81 kg)
Born: October 14, 1983 in Ost Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Affiliations: Eintracht Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main (GER)
Country: GER Germany
Sport: Athletics

Achievements
Year /Tournament /Venue /Rank /Perf.
2003 /World Championships /Paris, France /11th /65.81
2004 /Olympic Games /Athens, Greece /4th /72.73
2004 /World Athletics Final /Szombathely, Hungary /6th /69.65
2005 /World Championships /Helsinki, Finland /29th /61.91
2005 /World Athletics Final /Szombathely, Hungary /6th /69.95
2006 /European Championships /Gothenburg, Sweden /5th /70.89
2006 /World Athletics Final /Stuttgart, Germany /1st /75.44 CR
2007 /World Championships /Osaka, Japan /1st /74.76
2008 /Olympic Games Beijing, /China /9th /70.06
2008 /World Athletics Final /Stuttgart, Germany /5th /69.72
2009 /Summer Universiade /Belgrade, Serbia /1st /75.83 CR
2009 /World Championships /Berlin, Germany /2nd /77.12 NR
2009 /World Athletics Final /Thessaloniki, Greece /1st /72.03
2010 /European Cup Winter Throwing /Arles, France /1st /72.48 m

Gulfiya Khanafeyeva

Gulfiya Raifovna Khanafeyeva is a Russian hammer thrower of Tatar ethnicity.

Her international breakthrough came following her world record breaking throw of 77.26 metres from 12 June 2006 in Tula. She beat fellow Russian Tatyana Lysenko, however Lysenko threw 77.41 metres on 24 June in Zhukovskiy to regain the world record. Later in 2006 Khanafeyeva won a silver medal with 74.50 metres at the 2006 European Championships, her first international medal. Khanafeyeva is right now under investigation due to failing a drugtest during the military games, the result of the "b-sample" hasn't been released yet.

In 2007 Khanafeyeva improved to 77.36 m.

On 31 July 2008, Khanafeyeva was one of seven female Russian athletes suspended by the IAAF, due to doping test irregularities.

On 20 October 2008, it was announced that Khanafeyeva, along with 6 other Russian athletes would receive two-year doping bans for manipulating drug samples.

statics
Country: Russia
category: Athlete
birthday: 04.07.1982
Specialization: Hummer throwing

Achievements
Year /Competition /Venue /Position /Notes
2003 /European U23 Championships /Bydgoszcz, Poland /3rd /66.98 m
2003 /World Student Games /Daegu, South Korea /2nd /65.12 m
2006 /European Championships /Gothenburg, Sweden /2nd /74.50 m
2007 /World Championships /Osaka, Japan /10th /69.08 m

Aksana Miankova

Aksana Miankova is a Belarusian hammer thrower. She won the Olympic gold medal in 2008 with a throw of 76.34 metres, an Olympic record.

She also finished fifth at the 2005 Summer Universiade, and competed at the 2002 European Championships, the 2003 World Championships and the 2007 World Championships without reaching the final.

Her personal best throw is 77.32 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Minsk. This is the third longest throw by a woman.

statics
* Birthdate: March 28, 1982
* Weight: 187 lbs (85 kg)
* Height: 6’1” (1.86 m)
* Age: 28 years
* Gender: Female

Achievements
Year /Competition /Venue /Position /Notes
2002 /European Championships /Munich, Germany /27th /60.13 m
2003 /European U23 Championships /Bydgoszcz, Poland /2nd /67.58 m
2003 /World Championships /Paris, France /22nd /64.11 m
2006 European Championships /Gothenburg, Sweden /23rd /62.85 m
2007 World Championships /Osaka, Japan /— /NM
2008 Olympic Games /Beijing, PR China /1st /76.34 m
2009 World Championships /Berlin, Germany /13th /69.58 m

Tatyana Lysenko

Tatyana Viktorovna Lysenko is a Russian hammer thrower. She used to hold the world record with 77.80 metres, achieved on 15 August 2006 in Tallinn.

Her first world record was 77.06 metres, achieved on July 15, 2005 in Moscow, beating the old record of Mihaela Melinte by 0.99 metres. On June 12, 2006 she lost the record to Gulfiya Khanafeyeva, who threw 77.26 metres at the Russian athletics championships in Tula. However, Lysenko threw 77.41 metres on June 24 in Zhukovsky and 77.80 metres in Tallinn, Estonia on August 15.

On July 21, 2007 it was reported that she has failed a drug test, testing positive for a women's hormone blocker.

In 2008 she was found guilty of using 6α-methylandrostendione and received 2 years ineligibility (15.07.07 – 14.07.09) and disqualification of all results from 09.05.07 including her world record of 78.61 m set on May 26, 2007[6] Lysenko returned to competition in July 2009, taking the Russian title with 76.41 m.

statics
Weight : 81.00
Height : 1.86
Date of Birth : 09/10/1983
Place of birth : Bataisk, Rostov Region

Achievements
Year /Competition /Venue /Position /Notes
Representing Russia
2004 /Olympic Games /Athens, Greece /19th /66.82 m
2005 /World Championships /Helsinki, Finland /3rd /72.46 m
2006 /European Championships /Gothenburg, Sweden /1st /76.67 m = CR
2006 /World Cup /Athens, Greece /2nd /74.44 m
2009 /World Championships /Berlin, Germany /6th /72.22 m
2010 /European Cup Winter Throwing /Arles, France /3rd /69.11 m

Anita Włodarczyk

Anita Włodarczyk (born 8 August 1985) is a Polish hammer thrower. She holds the world record at 77.96 m, achieved in Berlin 2009.

Włodarczyk won her first national U23 championships in 2007, and went on to compete in the 2007 European Athletics U23 Championships, although she did not managed to progress beyond the qualifying round. She finished sixth in the hammer throw competition at the 2008 Olympic Games.

Włodarczyk qualified for the 2008 World Athletics Final and won a bronze medal. The following year, she took part in the 2009 European Team Championships, winning her first gold medal at a major international competition.

Włodarczyk achieved a personal best throw of 76.20 metres, achieved in 30 May 2009 in Biała Podlaska, beating her previous record by 81 cm and improve 76.59 m in Golden Spike Ostrava. Prior to the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, she produced a national record-breaking performance in Cottbus, winning the competition with a world-leading 77.20 m throw. This was fourth longest throw by a woman in hammer throw.

On 22 August 2009 during the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany Włodarczyk set a world record with a throw of 77.96 metres (255 ft 9 in). She twisted her left ankle during her celebration. Jacek Zamecznik chief of instruction PZLA in interview said she can throw over 80 m.

For her sport achievements, she received:
Knight's Cross Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (5th Class) in 2009.

statics
Full name: Anita Włodarczyk
Gender: Female
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
Weight: 194 lbs (88 kg)
Born: August 8, 1985 in Rawicz, Wielkopolskie, Poland
Affiliations: AZS Poznań, Poznań (POL)
Country: POL Poland

Achievements
Year /Tournament /Venue /Result /Notes
2007 /European U23 Championships /Stuttgart, Debrecen /4q /63.74 m
2008 /European Winter Throwing Cup /Split, Croatia /1st /71.84 m
2008 /Olympic Games /Beijing, China /6th /71.56 m
2008 /World Athletics Final /Stuttgart, Germany /3rd /70.97 m
2009 /1st SPAR European Team Championships /Leiria, Portugal /1st /75.23 m
2009 /20th International Lausitzer Meeting /Cottbus, Germany /1st /77.20 m
2009 /World Championships /Berlin, Germany /1st /77.96 m (World Record) (Championships Record)