Nataliya Yatsenko Explained

Nataliya Yatsenko
Birth Name:Nataliya Ivanovna Yatsenko
Birth Date:6 September 1961
Height:180 cm
Weight:80 kg
Sport:Rowing

Nataliya Ivanovna Yatsenko (later known as Nataliya Fedorenko, born 6 September 1961) is a Soviet rower.

Biography

Yatsenko was born in Kyiv suburb of Sofiïvska Borshchahivka in 1961; at the time, the city was part of the Soviet Union and it has since 1991 been the capital of Ukraine.[1]

Yatsenko initially competed under her maiden name and she first became World Champion in the eight event at the 1981 World Rowing Championships in Munich.[2] She repeated this feat in 1982 in Lucerne and in 1983 in Duisburg. Due to the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott, she did not attend the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles but competed at the Friendship Games instead where she won a gold medal with the women's eight. At the 1985 World Rowing Championships in Hazewinkel, she won her fourth World Championship.[3]

She competed once more at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul for the Soviet Union with the women's eight, this time under her married name.[4] The team came fourth at the Olympics.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Nataliya Yatsenko . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418083301/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fe/nataliya-fedorenko-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 14 April 2018 .
  2. Web site: Natalia Iatsenko . . 14 April 2018.
  3. Web site: Natalie Yatsenko . . 14 April 2018.
  4. Book: Official Report . 2 . Kyung-hee . Lee . Lee Kyung-hee . Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee . Seoul . 1989 . 534.
  5. Web site: Natalia Fedorenko . . 14 April 2018.