Tetyana Kocherhina

Tetyana Kocherhina

Kocherhina (left) at the 1980 Olympics
Personal information
Born	26 March 1956 (1956-03-26) (age 68) Ovidiopol, Ukraine
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport	Handball
Club	Spartak Kyiv
Coached by	Igor Turchin
Medal record Representing the Soviet Union Olympic Games 1976 Montreal Team 1980 Moscow Team World Championships 1973 Yugoslavia Team 1975 Soviet Union Team 1978 Czechoslovakia Team

Tetyana Ivanivna Kocherhina (née Makarets, Ukrainian: Тетяна Іванівна Кочергіна-Макарець, born 26 March 1956) is a retired Ukrainian handball player. Competing for the Soviet Union she won gold medals at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics and three medals at the world championships in 1973–1978. During her career Kocherhina played 133 international matches and scored 616 goals, more than anyone in the Soviet team. She was the best scorer of the 1975 World Championships.

Makarets was the youngest child in a family of nine siblings. She took up handball around 1968, and in 1972 was included to the Soviet national team. In 1976 she married a fellow handball player Sergey Kochergin and changed her last name from Makarets to Kocherhina/Kochergina. In 1981 she retired from the national team due to injuries and gave birth to a daughter, but then played for a few years with the local club in Brovary. In April 1988 she started lecturing at the Faculty of Sports of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and later became its dean.