Inna Osypenko-Radomska Explained

Inna Osypenko-Radomska
Native Name:Інна Володимирівна Осипенко-Радомська
Native Name Lang:uk
Fullname:Inna Volodymyrivna Osypenko-Radomska
Birth Date:20 August 1982
Birth Place:Novoraysk, Beryslav Raion, Kherson Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
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Inna Volodymyrivna Osypenko-Radomska (Ukrainian: Інна Володимирівна Осипенко-Радомська, born 20 September 1982) is a Ukrainian-Azerbaijani sprint kayaker. Competing for Ukraine, she won four Olympic medals, including gold at the 2008 Olympics in K-1 500 m. She switched to Azerbaijan in 2014 and won a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics.

Career

Osypenko-Radomska competed for Ukraine until 2014. She won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m at the 2001 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and silver in the same event at the 2003 World Championships. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she took bronze in the K-4 500 metres.

Osypenko-Radomska was the K-1 500 m champion at the 2008 Summer Olympics. At the 2010 World Championships, she won gold in K-1 500 m and silver in K-1 200 m. She was awarded two bronze medals – in the K-1 200 m and K-1 500 m – at the 2011 World Championships. The following year, she won silver medals in the K-1 500 m and K-1 200 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Osypenko-Radomska began competing for Azerbaijan in 2014. She won a bronze medal in K-1 200 m at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

On 29 August 2018, she was disqualified for four years after refusing an out-of-competition doping test in May 2018.[1]

Nowadays Inna is coach in slovakian club Dunajčík Bratislava with the Ukrainian community.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Five-time Olympic kayak medalist banned four years. 29 August 2018.