Tatiana Lysenko

Tatiana Lysenko
— Gymnast —
Full name	Tatiana Felixivna Lysenko
Country represented	Ukraine
Former countries represented	Soviet Union
Born	(1975-06-23) June 23, 1975 Kherson, Ukraine
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Head coach(es)	Oleg Ostapenko
Medal record Olympic Games Gold 1992 Barcelona Team Gold 1992 Barcelona Balance Beam Bronze 1992 Barcelona Vault World Championships Gold 1991 Indianapolis Team Bronze 1992 Paris Floor Exercise Bronze 1993 Birmingham All-Around World Cup Final Gold 1990 Brussels All-Around Gold 1990 Brussels Uneven Bars Bronze 1990 Brussels Floor Exercise European Championships Silver 1992 Nantes Uneven Bars

Tatiana Felixivna Lysenko (Ukrainian: Тетяна Фелiксiвна Лисенко; born June 23, 1975) is a Soviet and Ukrainian former gymnast,^[1] who had her senior competitive career from 1990 to 1994. Lysenko was a member of the Soviet Union team during the early 1990s, a period when its pool of talent was deep (the USSR never lost the women's team competition in the Olympic Games).

Life and career

Lysenko was born in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR. She is Jewish on her mother's side.^[2] She made her senior debut in 1990, winning the all-around competition in the World Cup. The next year she was selected for the Soviet team to the world championships in Indianapolis, where they won the team competition. She qualified to the all-around competition, ahead of her talented teammates Oksana Chusovitina, Rozalia Galiyeva and Natalia Kalinina, all accomplished gymnasts. However, she fell from beam and did not win any individual medals.

Lysenko's most notable achievements came at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She represented the Unified Team (ex-Soviets) along with Svetlana Boguinskaya, Tatiana Gutsu, Elena Grudneva, Rozalia Galiyeva and Oksana Chusovitina. They won the team title by a comfortable margin. Lysenko finished 7th in the all-around but she won the bronze medal in the vault after performing the most difficult vault in the entire competition, a double-twisting Yurchenko (9.912). Lysenko then won the gold in the beam event (9.975). By the end of the competition, she was holding two Olympic titles.

Unlike many of her Soviet teammates, Lysenko opted to continue after the breakup of the USSR, and represented her native Ukraine at the 1993 World Championships in Birmingham. She won bronze in the all around, which would have been gold had she not stepped out of the floor. Lysenko was one of only two ex-Soviets on the podium along with Oksana Chusovitina (representing Uzbekistan), a reflection of how the political upheaval affected the sport.

Lysenko continued to compete internationally in 1994. She placed 18th in the all-round (due to a mistake on her beam dismount) at the World Championships in Brisbane. In the event finals, she placed 4th on vault.

After her competitive career was over, Lysenko moved to the United States and now lives in California. She graduated from the University of San Francisco School of Law and was admitted the California State Bar in 2005. In 2002 Lysenko was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall Of Fame.

Competitive history

• Competitor for Ukraine

• Competitor for CIS

• Competitor for Ukraine

• Competitor for Soviet Union

See also

• List of select Jewish gymnasts

References

External links

• Tatiana Lysenko at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
• List of competitive results at Gymn Forum

Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Team All-Around     1928 Netherlands 1936 Germany 1948 Czechoslovakia 1952 Soviet Union 1956 Soviet Union 1960 Soviet Union 1964 Soviet Union 1968 Soviet Union 1972 Soviet Union 1976 Soviet Union 1980 Soviet Union 1984 Romania 1988 Soviet Union 1992 Unified Team 1996 United States 2000 Romania 2004 Romania 2008 China 2012 United States 1992:  Unified Team (EUN), Svetlana Boginskaya, Tatiana Gutsu, Oksana Chusovitina, Tatiana Lysenko, Yelena Grudneva, Rozalia Galiyeva

World Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Women's Team Competition     1934:  Czechoslovakia 1938:  Czechoslovakia 1950:  Sweden 1954:  Soviet Union 1958:  Soviet Union 1962:  Soviet Union 1966:  Czechoslovakia 1970:  Soviet Union 1974:  Soviet Union 1978:  Soviet Union 1979:  Romania 1981:  Soviet Union 1983:  Soviet Union 1985:  Soviet Union 1987:  Romania 1989:  Soviet Union 1991:  Soviet Union 1994:  Romania 1995:  Romania 1997:  Romania 1999:  Romania 2001:  Romania 2003:  United States 2006:  China 2007:  United States 2010:  Russia 2011:  United States 2014:  United States 1991:  Soviet Union (URS), Svetlana Boginskaya, Oksana Chusovitina, Rozalia Galiyeva, Tatiana Gutsu, Natalia Kalinina, Tatiana Lysenko