Liudmila Vauchok

Liudmila Vauchok

Medal record
Representing Belarus
Women's paralympic cross country skiing
	2006 Turin	10 km
	2010 Vancouver	10 km
	2006 Turin	2.5 km
	2006 Turin	5 km
	2006 Turin	3 × 2.5 km relay
Women's paralympic rowing
	2008 Beijing	Single sculls
	2012 London	Single sculls

Liudmila Vauchok (Belarusian: Людмілa Ваўчок, Russian: Людмила Волчек, born 19 June 1981, Smilavichy) is Belarusian Paralympian.

Career

She had excelled in athletics and she had won the Belarusian national titles in runs between 1500 and 5000 meters distances before she injured her spine in 2001 and was forced to use a wheelchair. She stayed involved in sports after her injury winning podium finishes in national competitions in armwrestling, athletics and dance. She dominated especially in cross country skiing.

Vauchok participated in the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin winning 10-kilometer skiing race and adding three bronzes.

In 2007, she finished second in the rowing world championships in Munich-Oberschleißheim in the women's single sculls Paralympic event.

Rowing was included into the 2008 Summer Paralympics program and Vauchok won silver medal in the women's single sculls event, the first ever Paralympic rowing final. She won a bronze medal in the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

External links

• Liudmila Vauchok at World Rowing
• Волчек Людмила Анатольевна at the Smilovichi Online web Template:Be icon
• Zimbio wikizine of Liudmila Vauchok