Natalja Stassjuk

Natalja Wiktorovna Stassjuk ( Russian Наталья Викторовна Стасюк ; born January 21, 1969 in Kapatkewitschy , Homelskaya Woblasz ) is a former Soviet and Belarusian rowing athlete . She took part in the Olympic Games twice and won a bronze medal in 1996.

Athletic career

Stassjuk finished second with the Soviet eighth at the Junior World Championships in 1987. At the 1991 World Championships in Vienna, she finished ninth in the four without a helmsman . With the eighth, she won the silver medal behind the Canadians. 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 eighth place.

From 1993 Natalja Stassjuk started 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 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 in the two without a helmsman , the Belarusian boat with Natalja Stassjuk and Marina Snak came in 13th. At your second Olympic participation in Atlanta in 1996 , Stassjuk won the bronze medal behind the boats from Romania and Canada with the Belarusian eighth.

In 1997 Stassjuk switched to the double scull , at the World Championships she finished fifth. In 1998 she reached eighth place at the World Championships in Cologne, just like in 1999 at the World Championships in St. Catharines.

Web links

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