Nadezhda Tkachenko

Nadezhda Tkachenko

Tkachenko at the Moscow Olympics, 1980
Medal record
Women's Athletics
Representing Soviet Union
Olympic Games
	1980 Moscow	Pentathlon
Universiade
	1973 Moscow	Pentathlon
European Championships
	1974 Rome	Pentathlon

Nadezhda Vladimirovna Tkachenko (Ukrainian: Надія Володимирівна Ткаченко, Russian: Надежда Владимировна Ткаченко; born September 19, 1948, in Kremenchuk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a former pentathlete.

Biography

She won an Olympic gold medal for the Soviet Union in 1980. A three-time Olympian, Tkachenko trained at VSS Avanhard in Donetsk Oblast. For the rest of her life until her death she was training sportspeople in Donetsk, and was named Honorary Citizen of Donetsk.

References

• Nadezhda Tkachenko on sports-reference.com