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| Birth name | Nataliya Ivanovna Yatsenko | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 September 1961 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nataliya Ivanovna Yatsenko (later known as Nataliya Fedorenko, born 6 September 1961) is a Soviet rower.
Yatsenko was born in Kyiv suburb of Sofiïvska Borshchahivka in 1961; at the time, the city was part of the Soviet Union and it has since 1991 been the capital of Ukraine. [1]
Yatsenko initially competed under her maiden name and she first became World Champion in the eight event at the 1981 World Rowing Championships in Munich. [2] She repeated this feat in 1982 in Lucerne and in 1983 in Duisburg. [2] Due to the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott, she did not attend the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles but competed at the Friendship Games instead where she won a gold medal with the women's eight.[ citation needed ] At the 1985 World Rowing Championships in Hazewinkel, she won her fourth World Championship. [3]
She competed once more at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul for the Soviet Union with the women's eight, this time under her married name. [4] The team came fourth at the Olympics. [1] [5]
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