Yulia Ryabchinskaya (21 January 1947 - 13 January 1973) was a

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from

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and Olympic champion. She represented the

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at the

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, winning the gold in the K-1 500 m event. Only four months after her Olympic victory, Ryabchinskaya was taking part in winter training at Lake Paleostomi in the Soviet republic of

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when she fell into the water and died from abrupt cooling. An international competition is held in her honor in

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every spring. Ryabchinskaya also won a gold in the K-4 500 m event at the 1971 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in

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.ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.

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1947 births 1973 deaths Canoeing deaths Canoeists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Deaths by drowning ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists of the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in canoeing Soviet female canoeists Sport deaths in the Soviet Union Ukrainian female canoeists Sportspeople from Vinnytsia Oblast {{Ukraine-canoe-bio-stub