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Ryta Turava
Ryta Turava (Belarusian language, Belarusian ''Рыта Турава''; Russian language, Russian ''Rita Turova, Рита Турова'', born 28 December 1980) is an athlete from Belarus, competing in race walking. She was born in Vitebsk. Her sister, Alesya Turava, is also a successful athlete, champion of Belarus in track and field (1500 metres: bronze medalist at the 2002 European Indoor Championships in Athletics, 2002 European Indoor Championships. The all-time all-time women's 10-km race-walk record is held by Margarita Turova, at 42:05. Achievements References * 1980 births Living people Belarusian female racewalkers Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Belarus Sportspeople from Vitebsk World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners {{Belarus-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarusian Language
Belarusian ( be, беларуская мова, biełaruskaja mova, link=no, ) is an East Slavic language. It is the native language of many Belarusians and one of the two official state languages in Belarus. Additionally, it is spoken in some parts of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Ukraine by Belarusian minorities in those countries. Before Belarus gained independence in 1991, the language was only known in English as ''Byelorussian'' or ''Belorussian'', the compound term retaining the English-language name for the Russian language in its second part, or alternatively as ''White Russian''. Following independence, it became known as ''Belarusan'' and since 1995 as ''Belarusian'' in English. As one of the East Slavic languages, Belarusian shares many grammatical and lexical features with other members of the group. To some extent, Russian, Rusyn, Ukrainian, and Belarusian retain a degree of mutual intelligibility. Its predecessor stage is known in Western academia as R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
