Yevgenia Senonovna Olshevskaya

Yevgenia Olshevskaya
Personal information
Surname:	Yevgenia Senonovna Olshevskaya
Nationality:	Russia
Discipline (s) :	Tower / synchronized jumping
Society:	CSKA Moscow
Birthday:	September 7, 1978
Place of birth:	Leningrad
Size:	166 cm
Weight:	48 kg

Yevgenia Senonowna Olschewskaja ( Russian Евгения Зеноновна Ольшевская * 7. September 1978 in Leningrad ) is a former Russian water jumper . She jumped for the club CSKA Moscow in the 10-m high diving and with Swetlana Timoschinina in the 10-m synchronized diving. She won several medals at world and European championships in synchronized jumping and took part in the Olympic Games in 2000 .

Olshevskaya's first international championship in the adult division was the 1998 World Cup in Perth . There she reached seventh place with Timoschinina in the 10 m synchronized jumping. The following year the duo became European champions at the European Championships in Istanbul , and in 2000 in Helsinki they won bronze. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 Olshevskaya took part in the individual and synchronized competition from the tower. In the singles she reached the semi-finals and was 16th, in synchronized jumping she was sixth with Timoschinina. In the following years, Olschewskaja was unable to qualify for individual appearances at the major championships within the team, but remained successful in synchronized jumping. At the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka , she won silver with Timoschinina, bronze in Barcelona in 2003 and bronze at the 2002 European Championships in Berlin . After the duo failed to qualify for the 2004 Olympic Games , Olshevskaya ended her active career.

Olshevskaya is a graduate of the Russian State University of Physical Culture, Saint Petersburg.

Web links

• Yevgenia Senonovna Olschewskaja in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Results overview on the-sports.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Зал славы НГУ имени П. Ф. Лесгафта. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 21, 2011 (Russian).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.