Elena Vaytsekhovskaya

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Elena Vaytsekhovskaya
Medal record


Competitor for the Soviet Union
Women's diving
Olympic Games
Gold	1976 Montreal	Platform

Elena Vaytsekhovskaya (born 1958) is a former Soviet diver and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, where she received a gold medal in platform diving.^[1]

Since 1991 she has worked as a sports journalist for Sport-Express, and is considered one of the best sports journalists in Russia.^{[citation needed]}

References

↑ "1976 Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Diving" – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 26 September 2008)

External links

Vaytsekhovskaya's articles translations

Olympic Diving Champions in Women's 10 metre Platform

1912: Greta Johansson (SWE)
1920: Stefanie Clausen (DEN)
1924: Caroline Smith (USA)
1928: Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston (USA)
1932 – 1936: Dorothy Poynton-Hill (USA)
1948: Vicki Draves (USA)
1952 – 1956: Pat McCormick (USA)
1960: Ingrid Krämer (EUA)
1964: Lesley Bush (USA)
1968: Milena Duchková (TCH)
1972: Ulrika Knape (SWE)
1976: Elena Vaytsekhovskaya (URS)
1980: Martina Jäschke (GDR)
1984: Zhou Jihong (CHN)
1988: Xu Yanmei (CHN)
1992 – 1996: Fu Mingxia (CHN)
2000: Laura Wilkinson (USA)
2004: Chantelle Newbery (AUS)
2008 – 2012: Chen Ruolin (CHN)

Persondata
Name	Vaytsekhovskaya, Elena
Alternative names
Short description	Diver
Date of birth	1958
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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