Tishchenko, Tatyana Alekseevna

Tatyana Tishchenko was born on January 1, 1975 in Omsk . She began to actively engage in rowing at the age of fifteen, she was trained at the local specialized children’s and youth sports school of Olympic reserve No. 3 under the guidance of coach A. B. Shishkin, and was a member of the Omsk rowing team of the Dynamo voluntary sports society. She achieved her first serious success in 1995, when she won a bronze medal at the World Championships in Duisburg, Germany, among the doubles at a distance of two hundred meters. A year later, she became the champion of Russia in the four-person kayak race at a distance of 500 meters and thanks to a series of successful performances she was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta . Together with the namesake Olga Tishchenko , Larisa Kosorukova and Natalya Guliy in the final, she fought for prize-winning positions in the same discipline, but in the end she finished only seventh.

After the Olympics, Tishchenko remained in the main team of the national team and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1997, she defended the title of champion of the All-Russian Championship and visited the European Championship in Bulgarian Plovdiv, from where she brought the bronze dignity award, won with four in the 200 meters race. In the next season, she took two golds at once in the Russian championship, among the fours at two hundred and half kilometer distances, in addition, she won bronze at the world championship in Szeged, Hungary, with four in the standings of two hundred meters she came to finish third.

In 1999, Tishchenko added two more gold medals to the national championship, with four for 200 and 500 meters. In the same disciplines she represented Russia at the European Championship in Zagreb, won gold and bronze, respectively. At the same time, at the world championship in Milan, their four-seater crew took silver two hundred meters. A year later, for the fifth time in a row, she won the half-kilometer fours program, thus becoming a seven-time champion of Russia. The last significant result was shown in 2004 at the European Championships in Poznan, Poland, when she won bronze and silver in such disciplines as K-4 200 m and K-4 1000 m - together with Galina Poryvaeva , Svetlana Kudinova , Anastasia Sergeeva and Tatyana Andreeva . She tried to qualify for the Olympic Games in Athens, but could not do this, after which she decided to end the career of a professional athlete. For outstanding sporting achievements she was awarded the honorary title " Master of Sports of Russia of International Class " (1996) ^[1] .

She has higher education, graduated from the Siberian State Academy of Physical Culture (now the Siberian State University of Physical Culture and Sports ). Currently lives in Omsk, works as a kayaking and canoeing trainer ^[2] .

• Tatyana Tishchenko - Olympic statistics on the website Sports-Reference.com (English)
• Tatyana Tishchenko - medals at major international competitions
• Tishchenko Tatyana Alekseevna (unavailable link from 06/14/2016 [1170 days]) - a brief biographical information on the Yandex.Dictionaries website
• List of Russian Kayaking and Canoeing Champions (unavailable link from 06/14/2016 [1170 days])
• Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )