| Liudmyla Luzan | |
| Nationality: | Ukrainian |
| Birth Date: | 1997 3, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine |
| Height: | 1.77 m |
| Club: | Dynamo Poltava |
| Coach: | Mykola Matsapura |
| Country: | Ukraine |
| Sport: | Canoe sprint |
| Show-Medals: | no |
Liudmyla Volodymyrivna Luzan (uk|Людмила Володимирівна Лузан; born 27 March 1997) is a Ukrainian sprint canoeist.[1] She is a two-time silver and a bronze Olympic medalist, three-time World champion and three-time European champion.[2]
Luzan competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics where she won a silver medal in the C-1 event. She won her first international senior medal when she placed third at the 2018 European Championships in the C-1 500 metres. Luzan won gold medals at the 2021 European Championships in the C-1 500 metres and the C-2 500 metres with Anastasiia Chetverikova, in addition to a silver medal in the C-1 200 metres and a bronze medal in the C-2 200 metres with Chetverikova. She won the silver medal in the C-2 500 metres event with Chetverikova and the bronze medal in the C-1 200 metres event at 2020 Summer Olympics.[3] [4] At the 2021 World Championships, Luzan won the gold medal in the C-2 500 metres event with Chetverikova, the silver medal in the C-1 500 metres event and the bronze medal in the C-4 500 metres with Chetverikova, Olena Tsyhankova and Yuliia Kolesnyk.
At the 2022 World Championships, Luzan won gold medals in the C-1 500 metres and the C-1 1000 metres, and a silver medal in the C-2 500 metres with Chetverikova. She won the gold medal in the C-2 500 metres with Chetverikova, and silver medals in the C-1 200 metres and the C-1 500 metres at the 2022 European Championships. At the 2023 European Games, Luzan won gold medals in the C-1 500 metres event and the C-2 500 metres event with Valeriia Tereta, and a silver medal in the C-1 200 metres event. She won the silver medal in the C-2 500 metres event at the 2024 Summer Olympics with Anastasiia Rybachok.[5]
| Year | C-1 200 | C-2 500 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | |||
| 2024 | DNS FB |
| Year | C-1 200 | C-1 500 | C-1 1000 | C-2 200 | C-2 500 | C-4 500 | XC-2 500 | XC-4 500 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3 FB | ||||||||
| 2017 | 7 | ||||||||
| 2018 | 6 FB | 6 | 8 | ||||||
| 2019 | 6 | 7 | |||||||
| 2021 | 4 | ||||||||
| 2022 | 9 | DNS | 5 | ||||||
| 2023 | 7 | DNS F | 8 | ||||||
| 2024 | DSQ H | 7 |