Nadezhda Tkachenko

Nadezhda Tkachenko

Tkachenko at the Moscow Olympics, 1980
Medal record
Women's Athletics
Competitor for  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
1980 Moscow Pentathlon
Universiade
1973 Moscow Pentathlon
European Championships
1974 Rome Pentathlon

Nadezhda Vladimirovna Tkachenko (Ukrainian: Надія Володимирівна Ткаченко, Russian: Надежда Владимировна Ткаченко; born September 19, 1948, in Kremenchuk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a former pentathlete.

Biography

She won an Olympic gold medal for the Soviet Union in 1980. A three-time Olympian, Tkachenko trained at VSS Avanhard in Donetsk Oblast. For the rest of her life until her death she was training sportspeople in Donetsk, and was named Honorary Citizen of Donetsk.

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