Vasily Fyodorowitsch Jakuscha

Wassili Fjodorowitsch Jakuscha ( Russian Василий Фёдорович Якуша ; born June 30, 1958 ) is a former Soviet rower who won two Olympic medals.

Vasily Jakuscha, who competed for SK SV Minsk , finished sixth in the single at the 1979 World Championships . At the 1980 Olympic Games , he won the silver medal behind the Finn Pertti Karppinen . After an eighth place at the world championships in 1981 he won world championship silver in 1982 behind Rüdiger Reiche from the GDR. In 1983 in Duisburg , Jakuscha did not make it into the medal ranks as fourth. He missed the 1984 Olympic Games because of the Olympic boycott of the Eastern Bloc countries.

Jakuscha did not row a medal in 1985 either, at the World Championships in Hazewinkel he finished fourth behind Pertti Karppinen, Andrew Sudduth (USA) and Peter-Michael Kolbe (Germany). In 1986 in Nottingham Kolbe won ahead of Karppinen, Jakuscha received the bronze medal. At the Olympic Games in 1988 Jakuscha competed together with Oleksandr Martschenko in a double scull and won the bronze medal behind the boats from the Netherlands and Switzerland.

Web links

• Wassili Fjodorowitsch Jakuscha in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Wassili Fjodorowitsch Jakuscha at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )

Footnotes

1. ↑ According to the Sports-Reference website, he was born in "Zazym'ya, Kyiv, Ukraine". The English language Wikipedia says on December 25th, 2014 that Jakuscha was born in Azerbaijan.