Yelena Soboleva
Soboleva at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics | ||
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's athletics | ||
| Representing Russia | ||
| World Indoor Championships | ||
| 2006 Moscow | 1500 m | |
Yelena Vladimirovna Soboleva (Russian: Елена Владимировна Соболева, 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.