Marharyta Makhneva

Marharyta Makhneva (Tsishkevich)

Makhneva (bottom left) on a 2016 stamp of Belarus

Personal information

Native name

Маргарыта Рыгораўна Махнева (Цішкевіч)

Nationality

Belarusian

Born

13 February 1992 (age 32)
Khoiniki, Homel, Belarus^[1]

Height

1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)^[1]^[2]

Weight

73 kg (161 lb)

Sport

Canoeing

Event

Canoe sprint

Medal record

Representing Belarus

Olympic Games
	2016 Rio	K-4 500 m
World Championships
	2015 Milan	K-2 200 m
	2015 Milan	K-4 500 m
	2013 Duisburg	K–4 500 m
	2014 Moscow	K-2 200 m
	2014 Moscow	K-4 500 m
	2014 Moscow	K-1 4x200 m
European Championships
	2014 Brandenburg	K-2 200 m
	2013 Montemor-o-Velho	K-4 500 m
Universiade
	2013 Kazan	K-2 500 m
	2013 Kazan	K-4 200 m
	2013 Kazan	K-1 200 m

Marharyta Makhneva (née Tsishkevich, Belarusian: Маргарыта Рыгораўна Махнева (Цішкевіч); Łacinka: Marharyta Ryhoraŭna Machnieva (Ciškievič); born 13 February 1992) is a Belarusian sprint canoeist. She won two gold medals at the 2015 World Championships (K-2 200 m and K-4 500 m) and the bronze medal in K-4 500 metres at the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Career

Tsishkevich represented Belarus at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed only in two individual sprint kayak events. For her first event, the women's K-1 500 metres, she advanced directly into the semi-final rounds, after placing sixth in the heats, with a time of 2:01.216.^[3] She was disqualified from the second semi-final race for breaking the four-metre "centre-lane" rule.^[4] In the first ever women's K-1 200 metres, Tsishkevich repeated her last-place finish in the same heat by approximately twenty-one hundredths of a second (0.21) behind Denmark's Henriette Engel Hansen, clocking at 43.033 seconds.^[5]^[6]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Makhneva won bronze in the women's K-4 500 metres with Volha Khudzenka, Nadzeya Liapeshka, and Maryna Litvinchuk.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Marharyta Tsishkevich". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
^ "Marharyta Tsishkevich at london2012.com". Archived from the original on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ "Women's Kayak Single (K1) 500m Heat 2". London 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
^ "Women's Kayak Single (K1) 500m Semifinal 2". London 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
^ "Women's Kayak Single (K1) 200m Semifinal 2". London 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
^ "Belarus' canoe sprinters reach Olympic finals". Belarusian Telegraph Agency. 10 August 2012. Archived from the original on 7 April 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2013. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ "Marharyta Makhneva at rio2016.com". Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)