Inna Volodymyrivna Osypenko-Radomska ( uk, Інна Володимирівна Осипенко-Радомська, born 20 September 1982) is a Ukrainian-Azerbaijani sprint kayaker. Competing for Ukraine, she won four Olympic medals, including gold at the 2008 Olympics in K-1 500 m. She switched to Azerbaijan in 2014 and won a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics.

Career

Osypenko-Radomska competed for Ukraine until 2014. She won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m at the

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and silver in the same event at the 2003 World Championships. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she took bronze in the K-4 500 metres. Osypenko-Radomska was the K-1 500 m champion at the 2008 Summer Olympics. At the 2010 World Championships, she won gold in K-1 500 m and silver in K-1 200 m. She was awarded two bronze medals – in the K-1 200 m and K-1 500 m – at the 2011 World Championships. The following year, she won silver medals in the K-1 500 m and K-1 200 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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. Osypenko-Radomska began competing for

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in 2014. She won a bronze medal in K-1 200 m at the 2016 Summer Olympics in

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. On 29 August 2018, she was disqualified for four years after refusing an out-of-competition

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in May 2018.

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