Oleksandr Tkachenko (rower)
Oleksandr Volodymyrowytsch Tkachenko ( Ukrainian Олександр Володимирович Ткаченко ; born June 19, 1960 in Kiev ) is a former Soviet rower who won an Olympic bronze medal in eighth in 1980 .
Athletic career
The 1.87 m tall rower from Dynamo Kiev took sixth place in a two-man with helmsman at the Junior World Championships in 1977 , and in 1978 he won in a four-man with helmsman . In 1979 he was a member of the Soviet eight, who won the bronze medal behind the boats from the GDR and New Zealand at the World Championships in Bled. This eighth competed in the line-up of Viktor Kakoschyn , Ihar Majstrenka , Oleksandr Manzewytsch , Vitali Moroz , Andrei Ruditsin , Oleksandr Tkachenko, Andrij Tyschtschenko , Andrei Luhin and helmsman Hryhorij Dmytrenko .
Before the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, Jonas Pinskus and Jonas Narmontas joined Moroz and Ruditsin. In the Olympic regatta, the Soviet eighth won the first run ahead of the British, in the other run the eighth from the GDR qualified directly for the final. The other four finalists reached the final via the reunion runs. In the final, the eighth from the GDR won with almost three seconds ahead of the British. 0.74 seconds behind the British, the Soviet eighth crossed the finish line one second ahead of the fourth-placed boat from Czechoslovakia.
Web links
- Oleksandr Tkachenko at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- Oleksandr Tkachenko in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ World Championships in figure eight on sport-komplett.de
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 777
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Tkachenko, Oleksandr |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tkachenko, Oleksandr Volodymyrovytsch (full name); Ткаченко, Олександр Володимирович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet-Ukrainian rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev |