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Tatiana Lysenko

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Tatiana Lysenko
Lysenko (right) at the 1992 Olympics
Personal information
Full nameTatiana Felixivna Lysenko
Country represented Ukraine
Former countries represented CIS ( Unified Team)
 Soviet Union
Born (1975-06-23) June 23, 1975 (age 49)
Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union[1][2]
ResidenceCalifornia, United States[3]
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
ClubDynamo Kherson[1]
Head coach(es)Oleg Ostapenko
Retired1994
Medal record
Representing  CIS ( Unified Team)
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1992 Barcelona Team
Gold medal – first place 1992 Barcelona Balance Beam
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Barcelona Vault
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Paris Floor exercise
Representing  Soviet Union
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1991 Indianapolis Team
World Cup Final
Gold medal – first place 1990 Brussels All-around
Gold medal – first place 1990 Brussels Uneven bars
Bronze medal – third place 1990 Brussels Floor exercise
Goodwill Games
Gold medal – first place 1990 Seattle Team
Representing  Ukraine
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1993 Birmingham All-around
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 1992 Nantes Uneven bars
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1993 Buffalo All-around
Gold medal – first place 1993 Buffalo Team
Gold medal – first place 1993 Buffalo Balance beam

Tatiana Felixivna Lysenko (Ukrainian: Тетяна Фелiксiвна Лисенко; born June 23, 1975) is a Soviet and Ukrainian former gymnast,[4] 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). She is the 1992 Olympic champion on balance beam.

Gymnastics career

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Lysenko was born in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, and has a Ukrainian-Jewish background.[5][6] She took up gymnastics at the age of seven, and made her senior debut in 1990, winning the all-around competition at the World Cup. In 1990, Lysenko participated at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle and won a gold medal in team competition [7]

Next year she was selected for the world championships in Indianapolis, where she won the team competition. She qualified to the all-around competition, ahead of her talented teammates Oksana Chusovitina, Rozalia Galiyeva and Natalia Kalinina, but fell from beam and did not win any individual medal.

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 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).[1]

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).

In 1993, Lysenko, representing Ukraine, competed at the 1993 Summer Universiade in Buffalo and won gold medals in all-around, team and balance beam.[8]

Lysenko continued to compete internationally in 1994. She placed 18th in the all-around at the World Championships in Brisbane. In the event finals, she placed fourth on vault. She retired after the World Championships.

Later life

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After retiring from competitions 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, she was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame,[2] and in 2016 into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. She is married and has a daughter.[3]

Competitive history

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Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
1989 International Junior Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Druzhba 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Junior URS-GDR Dual Meet 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1990 Chunichi Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Tokyo Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Goodwill Games 1st place, gold medalist(s)
URS-USA Dual Meet 1st place, gold medalist(s) 5
Blume Memorial 9
USSR Championships 4
USSR Cup 8 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
1991 Blume Memorial 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
USSR Spartakiade 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
URS-ITA Dual Meet 1st place, gold medalist(s) 5
World Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 13 8
1992 World Stars 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 7 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
DTB Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
CIS Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s)
CIS Cup 4 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Championships 9 7 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
European Championships 4 6 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4
Gander Memorial 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Olympic Games 1st place, gold medalist(s) 7 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1993 Birmingham Classic 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
UKR-USA-BLR Tri-Meet 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
French International 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Soapberry World Challenge 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Gander Memorial 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
University Games 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 7 1st place, gold medalist(s) 6
DTB Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 4
World Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5
1994
World Championships 18 4

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Tetiana Lysenko. sports-reference.com
  2. ^ a b TATIANA LYSENKO. jewishsports.net
  3. ^ a b Tatiana Lysenko. International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
  4. ^ Wechsler, Bob (2008). Day By Day In Jewish Sports History. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. pp. 214–. ISBN 9781602800137. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 5 U.S. athletes get in Jewish hall of fame LOS ANGELES, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Friday, December 7, 2001
  7. ^ 1990 Goodwill Games - Women's Team Competition Gymnastics, retrieved 2022-11-19
  8. ^ ""Gymnastics results of the 1993 Summer Universiade"". Archived from the original on 2010-07-26.
  9. ^ https://themedalcount.com/tatiana-lysenko/ [bare URL]
  10. ^ https://www.gymn-forum.net/bios/women/lysenko.html [bare URL]
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