Birth Date: | 10 July 1922 |
Sport: | Canoe racing |
Coach: | Valentin Volodin[1] |
Valentin Vasilyevich Orishchenko (ru|Валентин Васильевич Орищенко; born 10 July 1922) was a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the early 1950s. Together with Nikolay Perevozchikov he finished fourth in the C-2 10000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.[2] Orishchenko was a World War II veteran. Before taking up canoe racing he trained in gymnastics.[1]