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Nationality | Ukrainian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 4 May 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Diving | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Iryna Pissareva (born 4 May 1974) is a Ukrainian diver. She competed in the women's 3 metre springboard event at the 1996 Summer Olympics. [2]
Iryna Oleksiyivna Merleni, née Melnyk (Мельник), married name Mykulchyn (Микульчин) is a Ukrainian wrestler, who competed in the – 48 kg weight class at the 2004 Summer Olympics and claimed the gold medal. In the same event at the 2008 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal. She is a three-time world champion, and won the European championship once.
Iryna Vasiliyevna Yatchenko is a Belarusian former discus thrower best known for winning two Olympic bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics, although she was eventually stripped of the latter medal due to a doping offence. She also became world champion at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. Her personal best is 69.14 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Minsk.
Iryna Lishchynska, née Nedelenko (Неделенко) is a Ukrainian middle-distance athlete who specializes in the 1500 metres.
Iryna Krasnianska, born on November 19, 1987, in Vologda, USSR is a World Champion Ukrainian gymnast from Cherkasy, Ukraine. She started gymnastics in 1992. Iryna is the daughter of Nina, an engineer and Vasili, a doctor. Krasnianska was a 2004 Olympian. Krasnianska is primarily known as an uneven bars and balance beam specialist.
Iryna Oleksandrivna Novozhylova is a Ukrainian hammer thrower. She competed at the 2008 Olympic Games and 2012 Olympic Games without reaching the final. Her personal best throw is 74.10 metres, achieved in May 2012 in Kyiv.
Iryna Brémond is a French former tennis player.
Iryna Onufriyivna Kalynets was a Ukrainian poet, writer, activist and Soviet dissident during the 1970s. Kalynets was the wife of another Soviet dissident, Ihor Kalynets.
Iryna Aliyeva, née Iryna Kindzerska, is a Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani judoka. In 2021, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's +78 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She is also a two-time medalist at the European Judo Championships and a bronze medalist at the 2017 World Judo Championships and the 2019 European Games.
Iryna Vitaliïvna Amshennikova is a Ukrainian backstroke swimmer. She had her best achievements in short course competitions, where she won bronze at the 2002 FINA World Swimming Championships in the 200 m backstroke and six medals, including one gold, at the European Short Course Swimming Championships. She also competed at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics in several events, but was eliminated in the preliminaries. During her career she set 29 national records in the 50–200 m backstroke and various relay events.
Iryna Shutska, formerly known as Iryna Sheyenko, is a Ukrainian handballer playing for the Romanian club HC Dunărea Brăila and the Ukraine national team.
Iryna Ihorivna Herashchenko is a Ukrainian high jumper. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Olympics, finishing 10th and 4th respectively.
Iryna Uladzimiraŭna Shymanovich is a Belarusian tennis player.
Koliada or Koleda is a Slavic mythological deity personalizing the newborn winter infant Sun and symbolizing the New Year's cycle. The figure of Koliada is connected with the solar cycle, passing through the four seasons and from one substantial condition into another.
Iryna Leshchanka is a Belarusian biathlete. She won a gold medal in the 4×6 km relay at the 2018 Olympics. She also competed in the 2014/15 world cup season and represented Belarus at the Biathlon World Championships 2015 in Kontiolahti.
Iryna Mykhailivna Dekha is a Ukrainian weightlifter. She is a two-time Olympian and a four-time European champion.
Iryna Valentynivna Venediktova is a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, lawyer, Doctor of the Science of Law, professor. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Swiss Confederation and the Principality of Liechtenstein. The first female Prosecutor General in the history of Ukraine. In office – from March 17, 2020, to July 19, 2022. Director of the State Bureau of Investigation ad interim. Member of Parliament of Ukraine from the Servant of the People party of the 9th convocation. Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Policy.
Iryna Volodymyrivna Koliadenko is a Ukrainian freestyle wrestler. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's freestyle 62 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Iryna Malovichko is a Ukrainian sport shooter. She qualified to represent Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, competing in women's skeet.
Iryna Senyk was a Ukrainian poet, nurse, and Soviet political dissident. She was imprisoned in Stalinist camps as were her mother and brother. She was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and an honorary member of PEN International.