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Kyiv, Sunday 9 August (edited with official results):
 
w400h: Viktoriya Tkachuk 54.59 (big PB after missing last year through injury), Anna Ryzhykova 54.95, Mariya Mykolenko 55.99 PB
 
There were men's 100, 110H and 200, no outstanding results but Serhiy Smelyk ran 10.40/20.88 and Oleksandr Sokolov 10.45/20.90. No other women's events took place.
 
The national team champs were scheduled for this weekend just gone in Lutsk but were postponed till next weekend because of COVID related conditions in Lutsk and the surrounding area.

Vitaliy Butrym - Athletics (400m) 4 years to 19 May 2023 - EPO (!)
 
 Olena Serdyuk - Athletics (long distances) 8 years (2nd violation) to 9 June 2027 - cocktail of steroids!
 
https://nadc.org.ua/doping-kontrol/vidstoroneni-sportsmeny/

Basically my reaction:
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/BmWcMRzlIuZ/
 

 
There's her boyfriend - a swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk who took 2 golds & 1 silver in Glasgow and arrived in Berlin to cheer for her
She will become Maryna Romanchuk on September 2.

Nothing for 6 years?! *facepalm*
 
She had 55.16 at the 2015 World Championships. 53.80 at 400m (indoors) in 2016. She recovered after injury last year and ran 200m at the NCH (24.13 with +1.4 wind though).
 
 

She spent her pre-season preparing in the Carpathian mountains here. She was taking part mainly in our national competitions with not so much "rivalry" so she had to "stop" & wait for everyone and then run in the group training her tactics and finish spurt.