Yelena Tyushnyakova | |
Native Name: | Еле́на Тюшняко́ва |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Birth Name: | Yelena Nikolayevna Goncharova |
Birth Date: | 4 January 1963 |
Birth Place: | Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Country: | Unified Team |
Sport: | Speed skating |
Club: | PR Chelyabinsk |
Yelena Nikolayevna Tyushnyakova (; born 4 January 1963) is a Soviet-born Russian retired speed skater and ice hockey player.[1] She competed in two speed skating events at the 1992 Winter Olympics as a member of the Unified Team.[2]
Tyushkanova also played ice hockey as a defenceman at the Russian national level. She served as the inaugural captain of the Russian Women's Hockey League (RWHL) team Metelitsa Chelyabinsk during the 1997–98 season. As of the 2021–22 season, she serves as the conditioning coach of the Belye Medveditsy Chelyabinsk (previously Metelitsa Chelyabinsk) in the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL; replaced RWHL in 2015).[3]