Tatiana Lysenko
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Full name | Tatiana Felixivna Lysenko | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Kherson, Ukraine | June 23, 1975||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Oleg Ostapenko | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Tatiana Felixivna Lysenko (Ukrainian: Тетяна Фелiксiвна Лисенко; born June 23, 1975) is a Soviet and Ukrainian former gymnast,[1] who had her senior competitive career from 1990 to 1994. Lysenko was a member of the Soviet Union team during the early 1990s, a period when its pool of talent was deep (the USSR never lost the women's team competition in the Olympic Games).
Life and career
Lysenko was born in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR. She is Jewish on her mother's side.[2] She made her senior debut in 1990, winning the all-around competition in the World Cup. The next year she was selected for the Soviet team to the world championships in Indianapolis, where they won the team competition. She qualified to the all-around competition, ahead of her talented teammates Oksana Chusovitina, Rozalia Galiyeva and Natalia Kalinina, all accomplished gymnasts. However, she fell from beam and did not win any individual medals.
Lysenko's most notable achievements came at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She represented the Unified Team (ex-Soviets) along with Svetlana Boguinskaya, Tatiana Gutsu, Elena Grudneva, Rozalia Galiyeva and Oksana Chusovitina. They won the team title by a comfortable margin. Lysenko finished 7th in the all-around but she won the bronze medal in the vault after performing the most difficult vault in the entire competition, a double-twisting Yurchenko (9.912). Lysenko then won the gold in the beam event (9.975). By the end of the competition, she was holding two Olympic titles.
Unlike many of her Soviet teammates, Lysenko opted to continue after the breakup of the USSR, and represented her native Ukraine at the 1993 World Championships in Birmingham. She won bronze in the all around, which would have been gold had she not stepped out of the floor. Lysenko was one of only two ex-Soviets on the podium along with Oksana Chusovitina (representing Uzbekistan), a reflection of how the political upheaval affected the sport.
Lysenko continued to compete internationally in 1994. She placed 18th in the all-round (due to a mistake on her beam dismount) at the World Championships in Brisbane. In the event finals, she placed 4th on vault.
After her competitive career was over, Lysenko moved to the United States and now lives in California. She graduated from the University of San Francisco School of Law and was admitted the California State Bar in 2005. In 2002 Lysenko was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall Of Fame.
Competitive history
Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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1990 | World Cup Final | 1st | 4th | 1st | 4th | 3rd | |
1991 | World Championships | 1st | 13th | 8th | |||
1992 | European Championships | 4th | 6th | 2nd | 4th | ||
World Championships | 9th | 7th | 3rd | ||||
Olympic Games | 1st | 7th | 3rd | 1st | |||
1993 | World Championships | 3rd | 5th | ||||
1994 | World Championships | 18th | 4th |
- Competitor for Ukraine
Year | Competition Description | Location | Apparatus | Rank-Final | Score-Final | Rank-Qualifying | Score-Qualifying |
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1994 | World Championships | Brisbane | All-Around | 18 | 37.862 | ||
Vault | 4 | 9.737 | 9 | 9.631 | |||
Floor Exercise | 11 | 9.575 | |||||
1993 | World Championships | Birmingham | All-Around | 3 | 39.011 | 11 | 38.105 |
Vault | 21 | 9.581 | |||||
Uneven Bars | 5 | 9.500 | 8 | 9.637 | |||
Balance Beam | 23 | 9.337 | |||||
Floor Exercise | 12 | 9.550 |
- Competitor for CIS
Year | Competition Description | Location | Apparatus | Rank-Final | Score-Final | Rank-Qualifying | Score-Qualifying |
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1992 | Olympic Games | Barcelona | Team | 1 | 395.666 | ||
All-Around | 7 | 39.537 | 5 | 79.122 | |||
Vault | 3 | 9.912 | 5 | 19.824 | |||
Uneven Bars | 13 | 19.774 | |||||
Balance Beam | 1 | 9.975 | 3 | 19.787 | |||
Floor Exercise | 12 | 19.737 | |||||
World Championships | Paris | Vault (Qualification) | 6 | 9.862 | |||
Uneven Bars | 9 | 8.775 | |||||
Uneven Bars (Semi−Final) | 3 | 9.862 | |||||
Uneven Bars (Qualification) | 6 | 9.875 | |||||
Balance Beam | 7 | 9.362 | |||||
Balance Beam (Semi−Final) | 1 | 9.937 | |||||
Balance Beam (Qualification) | 4 | 9.837 | |||||
Floor Exercise | 3 | 9.887 | |||||
Floor Exercise (Semi−Final) | 3 | 9.900 | |||||
Floor Exercise (Qualification) | 2 | 9.900 |
- Competitor for Ukraine
Year | Competition Description | Location | Apparatus | Rank-Final | Score-Final | Rank-Qualifying | Score-Qualifying |
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1992 | European Championships | Nantes | All-Around | 4 | 39.137 | ||
Vault | 6 | 9.862 | 6 | 9.887 | |||
Uneven Bars | 2 | 9.900 | 3 | 9.900 | |||
Balance Beam | 37 | 9.400 | |||||
Floor Exercise | 5 | 9.875 | 1 | 9.950 |
- Competitor for Soviet Union
Year | Competition Description | Location | Apparatus | Rank-Final | Score-Final | Rank-Qualifying | Score-Qualifying |
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1991 | World Championships | Indianapolis | Team | 1 | 396.055 | ||
All-Around | 13 | 39.161 | 5 | 79.211 | |||
Vault | WD | 3 | 19.775 | ||||
Uneven Bars | 8 | 8.200 | 2 | 19.887 | |||
Balance Beam | 8 | 19.775 | |||||
Floor Exercise | 8 | 19.774 | |||||
1990 | World Cup Final | Brussels | All-Around | 1 | 39.599 | ||
Vault | 4 | 9.887 | 3 | 9.925 | |||
Uneven Bars | 1 | 9.937 | 1 | 9.887 | |||
Balance Beam | 4 | 9.887 | 2 | 9.887 | |||
Floor Exercise | 3 | 9.887 | 2 | 9.900 |
See also
References
- ^ Wechsler, Bob (2008). Day By Day In Jewish Sports History. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. pp. 214–. ISBN 9781602800137. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ Horvitz, P.S. (2007). The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes: An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and the 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars. Specialist Press International. p. 196. ISBN 9781561719075. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
External links
- 1975 births
- Living people
- People from Kherson
- Soviet female artistic gymnasts
- Ukrainian female artistic gymnasts
- Olympic gold medalists for the Unified Team
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Unified Team
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Gymnasts at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Jewish gymnasts
- Soviet Jews
- Ukrainian Jews
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR