Marina Nikolaevna Snak

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Marina Nikolajewna Snak ( Russian Марина Николаевна Знак ; born May 17, 1961 in Berlin ) is a former Soviet and Belarusian rowing athlete . She took part in the Olympic Games four times and won a bronze medal in 1996. At the beginning and at the end of her career, she won two world titles in consecutive years.

Athletic career

Snak won the title with the Soviet eighth at the World Rowing Championships in 1985 and 1986 . At the 1988 Olympic Games , she finished fourth with the Soviet eighth. In 1991 the Soviet team competed for the last time at the World Championships , Marina Snak won the silver medal behind the Canadians with eighth place. At the same world championships, Snak also started in a foursome with a helmsman , but only reached the B-final and finished ninth. In 1992 she started at the Olympic Games in Barcelona in the United Team for the Commonwealth of Independent States and reached fourth place with the eighth as in 1988.

From 1993 the 1.80 m tall rower started from Dinamo Minsk for Belarus. At the World Championships in 1993 she finished seventh in the four without a helmsman and fifth with the Belarusian eighth. In both boat classes, the Belarusians were the best-placed team from the former Soviet Union. In 1994 both boats with Marina Snak reached the A-final at the World Championships in Indianapolis , the four without a helmsman took sixth place, the eighth finished as the fifth boat. In 1995, Snak started in three boat classes at the World Championships in Tampere : she won bronze with the uncontrolled four, the eighth was fifth for the third time in a row and the two without helmsman made the Belarusian boat 13th. At her third Olympic participation in Atlanta in 1996 , Marina Snak won the bronze medal behind the boats from Romania and Canada with the Belarusian eighth.

In 1997 Snak entered two boat classes again, at the world championships she took eighth place with the two without helmswoman and fourth place with the eighth. In 1998 she reached the finals at the world championships in two boat classes : fourth place in the four without helmsman was followed by fifth place with eighth. The following year, the Belarusians finished eighth at the world championships , while Julija Bitschyk , Jelena Mikulitsch , Olha Trazewskaja and Marina Snak won the title in the four . In 2000 Irina Basilewskaja , Natallja Helach , Olha Trazewskaja and Marina Snak defended the title at the world championships in the non-Olympic boat classes . All four rowed at the 2000 Olympic Games in the Belarusian eighth, which took fourth place.

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SURNAME Snak, Marina Nikolaevna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Знак, Марина Николаевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet and Belarusian rowers
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin