Nadezhda Tkachenko

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Olympic medal record
Women's athletics
Gold 1980 Moscow Pentathlon

Nadezhda Tkachenko (Russian: Надежда Ткаченко) (born September 19, 1948) is a former pentathlete. She won an Olympic gold medal for the USSR in 1980. Tkachenko trained at VSS Avanhard in Donetsk Oblast.

Olympic champions in women's pentathlon and heptathlon
As pentathlon: 1964: Irina Press | 1968: Ingrid Becker | 1972: Mary Peters | 1976: Siegrun Siegl | 1980: Nadezhda Tkachenko
As heptathlon: 1984: Glynis Nunn | 1988: Jackie Joyner-Kersee | 1992: Jackie Joyner-Kersee| 1996: Ghada Shouaa | 2000: Denise Lewis | 2004: Carolina Klüft