Julia Petrovna Ryabtschinskaya

Julija Petrovna Rjabtschinskaja ( Russian Юлия Петровна Рябчинская ; Ukrainian Юлія Петрівна Рябчинська Julija Petriwna Rjabtschynska * 26. January 1947 , Pischtschanka , Oblast Vinnytsia , Ukrainian SSR ; † 13. January 1973 in Poti , Georgian SSR ) was a Soviet canoeist .

The trained nurse started for Lokomotiv Odessa . In 1971 she won the Soviet championship title in the four-man kayak and the 4-by-500-meter relay. The Soviet four-man kayak with Jekaterina Kuryschko , Natalja Boiko , Julija Rjabtschinskaja and Lyudmila Pinajewa competed at the World Championships in Belgrade in 1971 and won the gold medal in front of the two German boats from the FRG and the GDR.

At the 1972 Olympic Games , Ryabchinskaya started in a single kayak . She won the gold medal almost a second ahead of Mieke Jaapies from the Netherlands and another second ahead of third-placed Hungarian Anna Pfeffer .

Rjabtschinskaja , supervised by Antonina Seredina , was in winter training on Lake Paleostomi in Georgia when she capsized and caught a cold. Shortly before her 26th birthday, she died as a result of this hypothermia. Every spring, an international canoe competition is held in Moscow in her memory. Yulia Ryabchinskaya was awarded the Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union and the title of Honored Master of Sport .

Ryabchinskaya's grave in Pishchanka

literature

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

Web links

• Julija Petrovna Rjabtschinskaja in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• The world championship results on Sport-Complete
• Rowing woman from Vinnitsya put all world champions in her pocket on vlasno.info (Ukrainian)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Kluge: The Chronicle III. P. 426, note 588
2. ↑ Biography of Yulia Rjabtschinskaja on the website of the department of the National Olympic Committee of Vinnytsia Oblast, accessed on May 31, 2018 (Ukrainian)