Kateryna Tarassenko

Kateryna Tarassenko after her Olympic victory in 2012

Kateryna Mykolajiwna Tarasenko ( Ukrainian Катерина Миколаївна Тарасенко * 6. August 1987 in Dnipropetrovsk ) is a Ukrainian rower , which together with Natalija Dowhodko , Anastasia Koschenkowa and Yana Dementieva in 2012 the gold medal in quadruple sculls won and the first rowing Olympic gold medal for Ukraine to realized the collapse of the Soviet Union .

Athletic career

Kateryna Tarassenko won the silver medal in the four-four at the 2004 Junior World Championships . In 2007 she finished fourth at the U23 World Championships in a double scull with Olena Burjak . At the world championships without age limit, the two did not reach the goal after a weak run in the hope run . At the end of the season at the European Championships 2007 , Kateryna Tarassenko competed with Jana Dementjewa and again just missed a medal place in fourth. At the Olympic Games 2008 Tarassenko and Dementjewa reached seventh place, five weeks later at the European Championships in 2008 the two then won their first international title.

In 2009 Kateryna Tarassenko competed in three different championships in three different boat classes. At the U23 World Championships, she won the quadruple title. At the world championships without age limit she came in 16th place in the single . At the European Championships she finally sat in the Ukrainian eighth and helped win the bronze medal. In September 2010, Kateryna Tarassenko, Olena Burjak, Anastassija Koschenkowa and Jana Dementjewa won the European Championships in Montemor, Portugal. At the World Championships , which took place on Lake Karapiro in New Zealand at the beginning of November , the Ukrainian quadruple won the silver medal behind the British women. The next year the double scull was reassembled, at the 2011 World Championships in Bled, Switlana Spirjuchowa , Tetjana Kolesnikowa , Natalija Huba and Kateryna Tarassenko took sixth place. In the same line-up, the Ukrainian double-scull won the title at the European Championships in Plovdiv; of the five better placed boats at the World Championships, the German world champions and the four non-European boats were missing. In 2012 the Ukrainian four-four achieved a flawless record, three victories in the World Cup followed the Olympic victory on Dorney Lake and the victory at the European Championships in Varese, only Tarassenko and Jana Dementjewa were there in all five victories of the season.

Web links

• Kateryna Tarassenko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Kateryna Tarassenko at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )