Jelena Sergejewna Waizechowskaja

Waizechowskaja (right) in conversation with Mikhail Prokhorov (2009)

Jelena Sergejewna Waizechowskaja ( Russian Елена Сергеевна Вайцеховская ; English Elena Vaytsekhovskaya ; born March 1, 1958 in Lviv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Soviet water diver . She once took part in the Olympic Games and won a gold medal.

Career

Jelena Waizechowskaja's father and mother both worked as swimming coaches and her daughter was just learning to swim. After she got bored of swimming, Waizechovskaya started diving. At the swimming world championships in 1975 she reached fourth place in diving. Her participation in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal was not certain until shortly before the start of the Games, when she won the qualification for the previously vacant position in the team. She surprisingly won the Olympic competition from the tower ahead of the Swede Ulrika Knape and the American Deborah Wilson .

Waizechowskaya now works as a sports journalist.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .

Web links

• Jelena Sergejewna Waizechowskaja in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )