Kateryna Yurchenko ( uk, Катерина Юрченко) (born August 19, 1976) is a
Ukrainian
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sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1990s. At the
1996 Summer Olympics
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in
Atlanta
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, she was eliminated in the semifinals of both the
K-2 500 m and the
K-4 500 m event.
Yurchenko's father,
Vasyl
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, won two
Olympic medals
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in canoeing in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
References
Sports-Reference.com profile
1976 births
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists of Ukraine
Ukrainian female canoeists
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