Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko

Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko was born in 1989 in Pereiaslav

She was born Anna Knyazyeva in Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi in Soviet Ukraine. Her mother Valentina worked at the post office and her father Viktor retired from the Ukrainian army. She grew up in Cherkasy, began running at 8, and from 14 lived in Kyiv, where she attended a school for athletes.

Representing Ukraine, she won silver in the triple jump at the 2007 European Athletics Junior Championships. In June 2012 she jumped 14.71 m, and at the 2012 London Olympics she placed fourth with 14.56 m.

After the 2012 Games she moved to Israel following decathlete Anatoly Minenko, and they married at the end of that year. She has represented Israel since 2013 and set Israeli records, including 6.52 m in the long jump in 2014. In 2015 she won bronze at the European Indoor Championships in Prague and silver at the World Championships in Beijing with an Israeli record of 14.78 m.

She won silver at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam and placed fifth at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She placed fourth at the 2017 World Championships, sixth at the Tokyo Olympics and won bronze at the 2022 European Championships in Munich. She announced her retirement in December 2024.