Nataliya Yatsenko

Nataliya Yatsenko

Personal information
Birth name	Nataliya Ivanovna Yatsenko
Born	(1961-09-06) 6 September 1961 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport	Rowing
Medal record Women's rowing Representing the Soviet Union World Rowing Championships 1981 Munich Eight 1982 Lucerne Eight 1983 Duisburg Eight 1985 Hazewinkel Eight

Nataliya Ivanovna Yatsenko (later known as Nataliya Fedorenko, born 6 September 1961) is a Soviet rower.

Biography

Yatsenko was born in Kyiv suburb of Sofiïvska Borshchahivka in 1961; at the time, the city was part of the Soviet Union and it has since 1991 been the capital of Ukraine.

Yatsenko initially competed under her maiden name and she first became World Champion in the eight event at the 1981 World Rowing Championships in Munich. She repeated this feat in 1982 in Lucerne and in 1983 in Duisburg. Due to the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott, she did not attend the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles but competed at the Friendship Games instead where she won a gold medal with the women's eight. At the 1985 World Rowing Championships in Hazewinkel, she won her fourth World Championship.

She competed once more at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul for the Soviet Union with the women's eight, this time under her married name. The team came fourth at the Olympics.