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| Born | 21 May 1960 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Spartak Minsk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yelena Khloptseva (born 21 May 1960, in Minsk) is a rower from Belarus and Olympic champion. She won the gold medal in the double scull event with her partner Larisa Popova in the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games representing the Soviet Union. She also won a bronze medal in the quadruple scull event at 1992 Moscow Barcelona Olympic Games. [1] She also won various medals at World Rowing Championships. [2]
Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 14 events. It took place in the Man-made Basin, located at the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre. The rowing schedule began on 20 July and ended on 27 July.
Elisabeta Lipă is a retired rower and government official from Romania. She is the most decorated rower in the history of the Olympics, winning five gold, two silver and one bronze medals. She holds the record amongst rowers for the most years between gold medals, at 20 years.
Rebecca Jayne Romero, MBE is an English sportswoman, a former World Champion and Olympic Games silver medallist at rowing, and a former World champion and an Olympic champion track cyclist.
Giovanni Calabrese is an Italian rower who competed at three Olympic Games.
Brad Alan Lewis is an American competition rower and an Olympic Games gold medalist.
Stephanie Schiller is an Olympic-medalist sculler, winning a bronze medal in the women's quadruple sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She also won a World Championship gold medal in the same event with Julia Richter, Tina Manker and Britta Oppelt.
Adrien Hardy is a French rower and Olympic gold medallist.
Hans-Ulrich Schmied is a retired German rower who specialized in the double sculls. In this event he won bronze medals at the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games and finished in fifth place in 1968. He also won one world (1974) and two European titles. Schmied went to the 1978 World Rowing Championships on Lake Karapiro in New Zealand as a reserve but did not compete. It was at those championships that he got closer to one of the female rowers whom she later married; Bärbel Bendiks was also present as a reserve.
James Clark is a British rower who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics, in the 1976 Summer Olympics, and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Roswietha Zobelt is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Larisa Mikhaylovna Popova is a Moldovan rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Douglas Turnbull Hamilton is a Canadian Olympic medallist rower.
Stephanie Charlene Cooper-Foster, best known under her maiden name Stephanie Foster, is a former New Zealand rower.
Stephan Krüger is a German rower.
Kimberley Jean "Kim" Brennan is a retired Australian rower. She is a sixteen-time national champion, two-time World Champion, three-time Olympian and Olympic gold medallist.
Nathan Phillip Cohen is a New Zealand rower. He is a two-time world champion, and won a gold medal in the Olympics. In 2006, rowing a single scull, he won a gold medal at the World University Games. In doing so, he became the first New Zealander to win a gold medal at the World University Games in any sport. Cohen and his rowing partner, Joseph Sullivan, won back-to-back gold medals in the men's double sculls at both the 2010 and 2011 World Rowing Championships. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he and his partner won the gold medal in the men's double sculls, after breaking the Olympic best time in the heats. In 2013, Cohen was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to rowing.
The men's single sculls rowing competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at Krylatskoye Sports Complex Canoeing and Rowing Basin, Moscow, Soviet Union. The event was held from 20 to 27 July. There were 14 competitors from 14 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the event. The event was won by Pertti Karppinen of Finland, his second of three consecutive victories from 1976 to 1984. Karppinen was the eighth man to win multiple medals in the event. Silver went to Vasil Yakusha of the Soviet Union, the nation's sixth medal in eight Games. East Germany took a third consecutive bronze medal, all by different rowers as Peter Kersten was the nation's men's single sculler this Games.
Pauline D Wright is a retired British rowing cox who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Rosemary Frances Mayglothling OLY is a retired British rower, who competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
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