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Tatyana Andreyevna Roshchina-Osipova is a Kazakhstani cross-country skier who has been competing since 2004. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she finished tenth in the 4 × 5 km relay and 36th in the 10 km event.
Tatyana Yevgenyevna Khmyrova is a Russian handballer.
Tatyana Vasilyevna Kalmykova is a female Russian race walker. She represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and competed in the women's 20 km race walk, along with her teammates Tatyana Sibileva and Olga Kaniskina, who eventually won the gold medal for this event. In spite of tumultuous rains, Kalmykova did not hinder her chances of racing around a 20 km walk; however, she received a final warning for not following the proper form during the 14 km lap, and was subsequently disqualified.
Chelsea Hammond is a Jamaican long jumper, who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She nearly missed out of the podium in the women's long jump, when Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare obtained her best possible mark of 6.91 metres at her third attempt, to claim the bronze medal. In 2017, the second-place finisher, Tatyana Lebedeva had a positive test for turinabol and was disqualified from her silver medal. The medals were redistributed and Blessing Okagbare was advanced to silver, and Chelsea Hammond was advanced to bronze.
Tatyana Akhmetova-Amanzhol is an amateur Kazakh freestyle wrestler, who played for the women's flyweight category. In 2009, Bakatyuk won a gold medal for the 51 kg class at the Asian Wrestling Championships in Pattaya, Thailand, and at the FILA Golden Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Tatyana Nikolayevna Khromova was an Uzbekistani born Kazakhstani female weightlifter, competing in the 75 kg category and representing Kazakhstan at international competitions.
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- ↑ "Tatyana Kostromina". Olympedia. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
