Oleksandr Marchenko
Oleksandr Mykolajowytsch Martschenko ( Ukrainian Олександр Миколайович Марченко ; born January 12, 1968 in Kherson ) is a former Ukrainian rower who served in the Soviet Union until 1991 . He won an Olympic bronze medal as well as three silver medals and one bronze at world championships.
Athletic career
The 1.97 m tall Martschenko started at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul with Vasily Jakuscha in a double scull and won the bronze medal behind the boats from the Netherlands and Switzerland. The two had won both the preliminary and the semi-finals, in the final they were 0.28 seconds behind the Swiss. Two years later, Martschenko finished seventh in the double scull at the 1990 World Championships .
At the 1993 World Championships in Račice u Štětí, Ukraine competed with its own team for the first time. The double- four with Oleksandr Martschenko, Leonid Schaposchnykow , Mykola Tschupryna and Oleksandr Saskalko won the only medal for Ukraine when he finished second, over two seconds behind the Germans, ahead of the Italians. The following year, the Ukrainian quadruple competed at the 1994 World Championships in Indianapolis with the same line-up as the previous year. The Italians won with a one and a half second lead over the Ukrainians, this time the Germans received the bronze medal. At the 1995 World Championships , the Italians won ahead of the Germans. Bronze went to the Argentine double foursome who crossed the finish line 0.11 seconds ahead of the fourth-placed Ukrainians. In 1996 at the Olympic Games in Atlanta , Martschenko, Saskalko, Tschupryna and Shaposchnykow took last place in the preliminary run and reached the semi-finals with a second place in the hope run. Ultimately, as the winner of the B final, they finished seventh in the overall ranking.
At the 1997 World Championships on Lac d'Aiguebelette, Oleh Lykow , Oleksandr Martschenko, Leonid Schaposchnykow and Oleksandr Saskalko won the bronze medal behind the Italians and Germans. In 1998 the Ukrainian quadruple won three medals in the Rowing World Cup . At the World Championships in Cologne , the Ukrainians won the B final. A year later at the World Championships in St. Catharines , the Ukrainians rowed into the final via the repechage. There the Germans won with a three-second lead over Lykow, Martschenko, Schaposchnykow and Saskalko. The four Ukrainians reached the A-final at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and finished sixth. At the end of his career Martschenko took part in the eighth at the 2003 World Championships , but only reached the C-final.
Web links
- Oleksandr Martschenko in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Oleksandr Martschenko at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- World championships in quadruples at sport-komplett.de
Footnotes
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 178f
- ↑ Final 1995 in quadruple at worldrowing.com
- ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 836f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martschenko, Oleksandr |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martschenko, Oleksandr Mykolayowytsch; Марченко, Олександр Миколайович (Ukrainian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet-Ukrainian rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kherson |