Taissiya Filippovna Chechik

Taissija Filippowna Tschentschik ( Russian Таисия Филипповна Ченчик , English transcription Taisiya Chenchik ; born January 30, 1936 in Pryluky , Ukrainian SSR ; † November 19, 2013 ) was a track and field athlete from the Soviet Union . The high jumper won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 and was European champion in 1966.

Career

She won her first Soviet championship title in 1957 and was able to defend the title in 1958 and 1959. In 1963 she won her fourth and final championship title. In 1967 she was third for the last time on the podium.

At the European Championships in Stockholm in 1958 , she won 1.70 meters silver behind the Romanian Iolanda Balaş . In 1959 Tschentschik set her personal best with 1.78 meters. In 1960 at the Olympic Games in Rome , she was fifth with 1.68 meters; while Balaş was impregnable with 1.85 meters, three jumpers with 1.71 meters each were just ahead of Tschentschik. At the European Championships in Belgrade in 1962 , she was sixth with 1.64 meters when Balaş defended her title. In 1963 she won the Universiade in Porto Alegre with 1.72 meters.

At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, she set her personal best with 1.78 meters. So she won bronze behind Balaș and the Australian Michele Brown . Tschentschik achieved her biggest victory in 1966 at the European Championships in Budapest , when Balaş was not at the start. Tschentschik won with 1.75 meters in front of her teammate Lyudmila Komlewa with 1.73 meters. In 1967 Tschentschik won a European title at the European Indoor Games in Sofia with a height of 1.76 meters.

Taissija Tschentschik trained in Chelyabinsk from 1956 to 1962 and in Moscow from 1963 to 1969 . The 1.75 meter tall jumper had a competition weight of 71 kg.

literature

• ATFS (Ed.): USSR Athletics Statistics. Lassen, Frederiksberg 1988, ISSN  0256-8950 .
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896–1996. Full Results from AOHNA. Athens to Atlanta Track and Field Athletics. German Society for Athletics Documentation eV, Neuss 1999 (100 years of athletics in Germany)