Lyudmila Iossifovna Pinaeva

Award ceremony at the 1964 Olympic Games. Lyudmila Chwedossjuk in the middle between Lauer and Jones

Lyudmila Iossifowna Pinajewa ( Russian Людмила Иосифовна Пинаева ; born January 14, 1936 in Krasnoye Selo as Lyudmila Iossifowna Chwedossjuk ) is a former Soviet canoeist . With three Olympic gold medals and seven world championship titles, she is one of the most successful canoeists ever.

Life

Chwedosyuk won her first international title at the European Championships in 1961 together with Nina Grusinzewa in two. At the 1963 World Championships , she took second place behind her compatriot Marija Schubina in the one , in the two, Schubina and Chwedossjuk received the silver medal behind the German two with Roswitha Esser and Annemarie Zimmermann . In the foursome played for the first time at world championships, the Soviet crew won with Valentina Bizak , Pinajewa, Schubina and Antonina Seredina . At the 1964 Olympic Games in TokyoKvedosyuk entered only in one. she won ahead of the Romanian Hilde Lauer and the US canoeist Marcia Jones . In 1965 Chwedosyuk won the European Championships in 1965 in the one before Seredina. Seredina and Schubina won in two, ahead of Chwedossjuk and Nadezhda Levtschenko, and the four canoeists won the four-man competition together.

In 1966 Pinajewa first appeared under her married name. At the 1966 World Championships in East Berlin , Pinajewa won in a single ahead of Roswitha Esser. In the four, the Soviet crew with Schubina, Seredina, Pinajewa and Levtschenko won ahead of the four from the FRG and the GDR. The following year, Pinajewa managed a triple victory at the European Championships in Duisburg . She won in one and together with Seredina in two, both were also successful in four together with Schubina and Levtschenko.

On the day before the finals of the 1968 Olympic Games , Pinajewa crashed into the Italian team's car and sustained an injury. Nonetheless, she won the single competition ahead of Renate Breuer , who started for the FRG . Esser and Zimmermann won in two, in the battle for silver the Hungarians Anna Pfeffer and Katalin Rozsnyói were a hundredth of a second ahead of Seredina and Pinajewa. In 1969 Lyudmila Pinajewa had a child and did not compete internationally.

In 1970 the canoeist returned from Trud Leningrad and won the single title at the World Championships in Copenhagen . The following year she won the World Championships in Belgrade in a single and together with Jekaterina Kuryschko , Natalja Boiko and Julija Rjabtschinskaja in a four. Also at her third Olympic Games in 1972 in Munich Pinajewa won a gold medal, she won together with Yekaterina Kuryschko in the two-man, in the one Yulia Rjabtschinskaya won. At the end of her career, Pinajewa won two medals at the 1973 World Championships in Tampere. In the two, she and Nina Gopowa received the silver medal behind the two from the GDR, in the four, Gopowa and Pinajewa won together with Larissa Kabakowa and Tamara Popowa .

literature

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

• Lyudmila Iossifowna Pinajewa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• The world championship results on Sport-Complete
• The European Championship results on Sport-Complete

Footnotes

1. ↑ According to the results lists on sport-komplett.de, the European and World Championships took place in Jajce in 1963 and had the same results except for the four-man team that was not listed at the European Championships. So far, no evidence has been found that there were actually two different events.
2. ↑ The presentation follows the results lists on sport-komplett.de, until 1965 Chwedosjuk is listed, from 1966 Pinajewa.
3. ↑ Kluge: Die Chronik III , p. 200, note 468