medaltemplates article_title birth_date
women 's athletics larisa peleshenko
 february 29 , 1964
larisa peleshenko

larisa alexandrovna peleshenko -lrb- -rrb- , née agapova -lrb- born february 29 , 1964 in slantsy , leningrad oblast -rrb- is a retired russian shot putter best known for winning the olympic silver medal in 2000 .
in her early career she won european indoor silver medals , but in february 1995 she received a four-year drugs ban .
having originally won the 1995 world indoor championships , she lost the medal .
she won the 2001 indoor championships and finished fourth at the world championships the same year , and retired at the end of the season .
