Antonina Alexandrovna Seredina

Antonina Alexandrovna Seredina ( Russian Антонина Александровна Середина ; born December 23, 1929 in Tver ; † September 2, 2016 in Moscow ) was a Soviet canoeist and Olympic champion .

Life

Seredina only started canoeing in 1954. When she moved to Moscow to study, she joined Spartak Moscow . At the 1958 World Championships in Prague she was second behind Jelisaweta Kislowa in a single kayak and together with Kislowa she won silver behind Marija Schubina and Nina Grusinzewa . At the European Championships in 1959 in Duisburg she was again second behind Kislowa in the single, but won the European title in two-man kayak with Kislowa in front of Schubina and Grusinzewa.

At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, she won the singles 0.14 seconds ahead of the German Therese Zenz . In the two-person kayak she won together with Marija Schubina in front of the German boat with Zenz and Ingrid Hartmann .

In 1961 Seredina won the European championship in a single ahead of Nina Grusinzewa. In 1963 at the World Championships in Jajce , she won the world championship title in a four-kayak. At the 1964 Olympic Games , she took fourth place in a two-person kayak with Nina Grusinzewa. 1965 at the European Championships Seredina was second behind Lyudmila Chwedosjuk in the singles . In a two-person kayak she won together with Marija Schubina before Chwedosjuk and Nadezhda Levtschenko . In a quad kayak, these four rowers sat together in the boat and won the title together.

In 1966 at the World Championships in East Berlin , she won silver in a two-person kayak together with Marija Schubina. In a four- person kayak, Pinajewa-Chwedosjuk, Levtschenko, Schubina and Seredina won. In 1967 Seredina finished third at the European Championships in singles. In two, she won together with Pinajewa, and the four defended his title from 1965 in the same line-up. Her career ended with the 1968 Summer Olympics in two-person kayaks, and she won bronze with Pinajewa. The four-kayak did not become Olympic for women until 1984 .

At the Olympic Games in 1972 and 1976 Seredina was responsible as a coach for the Soviet women's team.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ушла из жизни Середина А.А. Report of death on the website of the Russian Rowing and Canoeing Association, September 2, 2016, accessed on September 4, 2016 (in Russian).

Web links

• Antonina Alexandrowna Seredina in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• The European Championship results: Sport Complete
• The 1963 World Cup results: Italian Wikipedia