Yulia Ryabchinskaya

Yulia Ryabchinskaya

Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	1972 Munich	K-1 500 m
World Championships
	1971 Belgrade	K-4 500 m

Yulia Ryabchinskaya (January 21, 1947 - January 13, 1973) was a canoeist from Ukraine and Olympic champion. She represented the USSR at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning the gold in the K-1 500 m event.^[1][2]

Only four months after her Olympic victory, Ryabchinskaya was taking part in winter training at Lake Paleostomi in the Soviet republic of Georgia when she fell into the water and died from abrupt cooling.^[3] An international competition is held in her honor in Moscow every spring.^[3]

Ryabchinskaya also won a gold in the K-4 500 m event at the 1971 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Belgrade.^[4][5]

References

1. "1972 Summer Olympics – München, Germany – Canoeing" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on August 27, 2008)
2. Sports-reference.com profile
3. Wallechinsky, David; Loucky, Jaime (2012). The Complete Book of the Olympics 2012 Edition. London: Aurum Press. p. 535. ISBN 978 1 84513 695 6.
4. ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
5. ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.