Mykola Tschupryna

Mykola Mykolaiowisch Tschupryna ( Ukrainian Микола Миколайович Чуприна ; Russian Николай Николаевич Чуприна / Nikolai Nikolaevich Tschuprina ; * 4. June 1962 in Kiev ) is a former Soviet rower who after 1992 for the Ukraine took.

Tschupryna won the silver medal in double sculls at the 1985 World Rowing Championships together with Yuri Selikowitsch . In 1986 the two took fourth place.

Tschupryna had his next appearance at world championships in 1990 , when he won the world title in the double foursome. At the 1991 World Rowing Championships , the last appearance of the Soviet national rowing team, the crew with three Ukrainians and one Belarusian won the only and thus the last title for the Soviet Union. At the 1992 Olympic Games , the double foursome competed in the 1990 and 1991 world championship for the CIS , but could not qualify for the final and took seventh place in the final score.

At the 1993 World Rowing Championships , Tschupryna sat in a newly assembled Ukrainian quadruple and won the silver medal behind the German boat. At the rowing world championships in 1994 , the Ukrainian four-man again received silver, this time the Italians won, while the Germans took bronze. The Ukrainian foursome started in the same line-up as in 1993 and 1994 at the 1996 Olympic Games and finished seventh there, for Tschupryna it was the same placement as four years earlier.

Web links

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