Yaroslav Cherstvy Explained

Yaroslav Cherstvy
Sport:	Rowing
Club:	Trud Leningrad

Yaroslav Filippovich Cherstvy (Russian: Ярослав Филиппович Черствый; born 1933) is a Russian rower who represented the Soviet Union.

Cherstvy went to the 1956 European Rowing Championships in Bled where he won a silver medal with the coxed four.^[1] He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with the men's coxed four where they got eliminated in the semi-final.^{[2] [3]} As a member of his rowing club Trud Leningrad he won the Grand Challenge Cup in 1958 as part of the Henley Royal Regatta.^[4]

At the 1962 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne, he won silver with the men's eight.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Heckert . Karlheinz . Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Vierer m.Stm.) . Sport Komplett . 17 February 2018 . de.
2. Web site: Yaroslav Cherstvy . . 17 February 2018.
3. Yaroslav Cherstvy . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418064451/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ch/yaroslav-cherstvy-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 17 February 2018 .
4. News: Der Sport in Zahlen . Sport in Numbers . 17 February 2018 . . 14 . 155 . 8 July 1958 . 4 . de .
5. Web site: Heckert . Karlheinz . 17 February 2018 . Rudern – Weltmeisterschaften. Achter – Herren . Rowing – World Championships. Eight – Men . de . Sport-Komplett.de.