Sinajida Turchyna
Sinajida Turchyna 1980 on the right in the picture |
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| Player information | |
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| Full name | Sinajida Mychailivna Turchyna |
| birthday | May 17, 1946 |
| place of birth | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |
| citizenship |
 Ukraine Soviet Union
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| height | 1.80 m |
| Club information | |
| society | Career ended |
| Clubs as active | |
| from ... to | society |
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Spartak Kiev
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| National team | |
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Soviet Union
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| Clubs as coaches | |
| from ... to | society |
| 1993– |
Spartak Kiev
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| 1993-1994 |
Ukraine
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As of March 29, 2018 |
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| Cyrillic ( Ukrainian ) | |
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| Зінаїда Михайлівна Турчина | |
| Transl. : | Zinajida Mychajlivna Turčyna |
| Transcr. : | Sinajida Mychailivna Turchyna |
| Cyrillic ( Russian ) | |
| Зинаи́да Миха́йловна Турчина́ | |
| Transl .: | Zinaida Michajlovna Turčina |
| Transcr .: | Sinaida Mikhailovna Turchina |
Sinajida Mychailiwna Turchyna (born May 17, 1946 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Soviet - Ukrainian handball player and Olympic champion . In 2000 she was voted the best handball player of the 20th century by an IHF expert committee.
Turchyna is Vice-President of the Handball Federation of Ukraine and since 1993, following her deceased husband, the founder and coach of the Ihor Turchyn club ( Ukrainian Ігор Євдокимович Турчин ; 1936–1993), she was president of the Spartak Kiev handball club during her time also competed as an active athlete.
Sporting successes
With Spartak Kiev, Sinajida Turchyna won the Soviet women's handball championships 20 times. Turchyna won the Olympic victory with the Soviet women's national handball team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow . At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , she won the bronze medal with the team.
At the women's handball world championships she won the bronze medal with the Soviet team in Yugoslavia in 1973, the silver medal in 1975 in the USSR and 1978 in Czechoslovakia , and was handball world champion in Hungary in 1982 and in the Netherlands in 1986.
Honors
Sinajida Turchyna received numerous orders and honors. Including:
- 2000 IHF World Player of the Century
- 2001 honorary citizen of the city of Kiev
- 2012 Ukrainian Order of Merit 3rd class
- 2009 Order of Princess Olga, 1st class
- Order of Friendship between Nations
- Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union
- twice the Order of the Red Banner of Labor
Web links
- Sinajida Turchyna in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Interview with Turchyna on segodnya.ua from December 21, 2000 (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/150902
- ↑ http://ihf.info/en-us/mediacentre/news/newsdetails.aspx?ID=3197
- ↑ Article on the website of the Handball Federation of Ukraine ; accessed on October 28, 2015
- ^ Administration of the association on the Spart Kiev website ; accessed on October 28, 2015
- ↑ Interview with on Sobytiya.net from November 3, 2008 ; accessed on October 28, 2015
- ↑ Sinajida Turchyna on databaseolympics.com ; accessed on October 28, 2015
- ↑ honorary citizen of Kiev-Sinajida Turchyna on the website of the city of Kiev (Ukrainian); Retrieved November 8, 2015
- ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 755/2012 of December 25, 2012 ; accessed on October 28, 2015
- ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 26/2009 of January 16, 2009 ; accessed on October 28, 2015
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Turchyna, Sinajida |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Турчина́, Зінаї́да Миха́йлівна (Ukrainian); Turchyna, Sinajida Mychailiwna (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet-Ukrainian handball player and Olympic champion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |