Maryna Mikolaevna Cherniak ( uk, Марина Миколаївна Черняк, born 26 March 1988) is a Ukrainian

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Career

Her twin sister

Inna Cherniak Inna Mikolaevna Cherniak ( uk, Інна Миколаївна Черняк, born 26 March 1988) is a Ukrainian judo and sambo practitioner. Career Despite being visually impaired from birth she competes both against sighted and visually impaired ...

is visually impaired, but competes in

judo is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponi ...

and

sambo , aka = Sombo (in English-speaking countries) , focus = Hybrid , country = Soviet Union , pioneers = Viktor Spiridonov, Vasili Oshchepkov, Anatoly Kharlampiev , famous_pract = List of Practitioners , oly ...

both against sighted and visually impaired people. To avoid competing against each other the sisters often split the events. For example, at the 2013 World Championships, Inna competed in the 52 kg and Maryna in the 48 kg division. At the

2013 Summer Universiade The 2013 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXVII Summer Universiade (russian: XXVII Летняя Универсиада), was held in the city of Kazan, Russia, the most northerly city ever to host a Summer Universiade. Over 10,400 un ...

, both sisters won medals in the 52 kg category, but Inna in

and Maryna in

. In 2016, Inna won a gold medal in judo at the

2016 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 159 , athletes = 4,342 , opening = 7 September , closing = 18 September , opened_by = President Michel Temer , cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva , events = 528 in 22 sports , stadium = Maracanã , sum ...

, while Maryna was eliminated in her second bout at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

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* * * * 1988 births Living people Ukrainian female judoka Olympic judoka for Ukraine Judoka at the 2016 Summer Olympics Ukrainian twins Summer World University Games medalists in judo FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Ukraine European Games competitors for Ukraine Judoka at the 2015 European Games Judoka at the 2019 European Games Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade 21st-century Ukrainian sportswomen {{Ukraine-judo-bio-stub