Shot putter Vita Pavlysh explodes for 20,34 m at Kiyevskaya oblast

After almost a three-year break, Vita Pavlysh of Ukraine was able to bring
her level of performance back to where it was in the winter of 1999. Then,
she was disqualified after producing a positive doping test following her
victory at the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi.

This years results came largely due to the expertise of another 1999
Maebashi World Champion Aleksandr Bagach, who after prematurely interrupting
his own career took up coaching and has been working with Vita for almost
half a year now. Prior to that, she had been living in Kharkov, coached by
Anatoliy Kvitkov. Lets hope that her move to Brovary--central training
camp for throwers in Ukraine--will help Vita fully restore her form and
improve on her performance of January 20, 2002.

Nilolay Afanayev