Marina Pavlovna Suprun ( August 17, 1962 , Moscow ) - Soviet and Belarusian rower , played for the USSR and Belarus national rowing teams in the second half of the 1980s - the first half of the 1990s. Two-time world champion, multiple champion of the regattas of the All-Union and republican significance, a participant in two summer Olympic Games. At the competition she represented the sports society " Spartak ", Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1987).
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| A country |  Russia  Belarus |
| Specialization | eights with steering |
| Club | Spartacus |
| Date of Birth | August 17, 1962 (57 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Moscow |
| Growth | 182 cm |
| Weight | 87 kg |
Biography
Marina Suprun was born on August 17, 1962 in Moscow . She began to actively engage in rowing in early childhood, she was trained at the Spartak voluntary sports society in the capital.
She achieved her first serious success in 1979, when she won the bronze medal in swinging fours with a steering at the junior world championship held on the rowing canal in Krylatsky . She made her debut at the adult world championships in the 1985 season and immediately won gold in the women's eight-seater crew program, winning the competition in the Belgian city of Hazewinkel [1] . A year later, she defended her league title at the World Championships in Nottingham, England. In 1987, she again entered the main team of the Soviet national team and at the world championship in Copenhagen she tried for the third time in a row to become a champion - this time she was forced to be content with a bronze award, losing to the teams from Romania and the USA in the final. For outstanding sporting achievements at the end of the season, she was awarded the honorary title " Honored Master of Sports of the USSR "
Thanks to a series of successful performances, in 1988 Suprun won the right to defend the country's honor at the Seoul Summer Olympics - she reached the final stage in the swing quadruple program, but finished ninth in the decisive race. At the 1991 World Championships in Vienna, she won a silver medal in the eighth classification, later she was selected for the so-called Joint Team, created from athletes of the former Soviet republics to participate in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona - in the final eight-seater crew program, she took fourth place, not reaching the prize positions a bit.
After the final collapse of the Soviet Union, she lived in Minsk , continued to play for the national team of Belarus - later took part in many more prestigious international regattas. So, in 1993, Marina Suprun went to the world championship in the Czech city of Racice, where she took fifth place among the steering eights and seventh among the steeringless fours. At the 1994 World Championships in American Indianapolis, she was fifth in eights and sixth in fours.
Notes
- ↑ 1985 year . IFSO "Spartak" named after N.P. Starostin. Date of appeal September 12, 2014.
Links
- Marina Suprun - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Marina Suprun - profile on the FISA website