Natalia Sergeyevna Ishchenko (russian: Наталья Серге́евна Ищенко; born 8 April 1986) is a retired Russian competitor in synchronized swimming, five-times Olympic champion and nineteen-times world champion. Ishchenko announced her retirement from sports in April 2017. Since November, she serves as Vice Minister of Sports of

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Career

Natalia was a member of the Russian gold medal team in

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and

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. She also won gold in the women's duet at the

and 2016 Summer Olympics with Svetlana Romashina. Natalia took a break from the sport in 2013 after giving birth to her son. She returned in 2015, winning both the women's duet and team events at the European Synchro Cup in

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, qualifying for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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