Nadia Tkachenko

Tkachenko at the Olympic Games in Moscow, 1980

Nadija Tkachenko ( Ukrainian Надія Ткаченко , English transcription Nadiya Tkachenko, later Сапронова - Sapronova - Sapronova; born September 19, 1948 in Kremenchuk , Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Ukrainian pentathlete who became Olympic champion for the Soviet Union .

Her Olympic debut was Tkachenko at the 1972 Games in Munich, when she was ninth with 4,370 points.

In 1973 she won the Universiade with 4629 points. At the European Athletics Championships in Rome in 1974 , she was European champion with 4776 points ahead of Burglinde Pollak from the GDR.

The pentathlon at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was determined by the all -rounders from the GDR, who won all medals with Sigrun Siegl , Christine Laser and Burglinde Pollak. Behind Lyudmila Popovskaya Tkachenko was fifth with 4669 points fifth.

From 1977, the final 200-meter run in the pentathlon was replaced by the 800-meter run. Nadezhda Tkachenko did this because the sprint was not her strongest discipline. The EM 1978 in Prague Tkachenko won with 4744 points. The gold medal was stripped of her because of doping and the Hungarian Margit Papp was subsequently honored as European champion.

Tkachenko's ban was lifted before the 1980 Moscow Olympics . Nadezhda Tkachenko delivered the best pentathlon of her career and won with a new world record of 5087 points ahead of her teammates Olga Rukawischnikowa and Olga Kuragina . Behind the young GDR athlete Ramona Neubert , Tkatschenko's old rivals Margit Papp and Burglinde Pollak placed 5th and 6th.

The individual achievements in the world record on July 23 and 24, 1980:

• 100 meter hurdles: 13.29 s
• Shot put: 16.84 m
• High jump: 1.84 m
• Long jump: 6.73 m
• 800 meter run: 2: 05.2 min

In 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1978 she became the Soviet pentathlon champion.

Nadija Tkachenko is 1.65 m tall and weighed 71 kg at competition times.

literature

• ATFS (Ed.): USSR Athletics Statistics. London 1988
• Ekkehard zur Megede : The Modern Olympic Century 1896–1996. Track and Field Athletics. German Society for Athletics Documentation eV, Neuss 1999.

Web links

• Nadia Tkachenko in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Nadija Tkachenko in the trackfield.brinkster.net database (English)
• Nadija Tkachenko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ Incredible fear . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1982, pp. 228-231 ( online ).
2. ↑ jump out the window . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1988, pp. 219-222 ( online ).