Yana Dementieva

Yana Dementieva

Medal record
Women's Rowing
Competitor for  Ukraine
Olympic Games
Gold 2012 London W4x
Rowing World Championships
Gold 2009 Poznań W4x
Silver 2010 Karapiro W4x
European Rowing Championships
Gold 2008 Marathon W2x
Gold 2009 Brest W4x
Gold 2010 Montemor-o-Velho W4x
Gold 2011 Plovdiv W2x

Yana Mykhailivna Dementieva (Ukrainian: Яна Михайлівна Дементьєва; born 23 October 1978 in Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian rower. At the 2012 Summer Olympics Dementieva won the gold medal in the quadruple sculls event with Kateryna Tarasenko, Anastasiia Kozhenkova and Nataliya Dovgodko.[1] She is also a World and European champion in the quadruple sculls, as well as being a European champion in the double sculls.

At the 2004 Olympics she was disqualified with her team after one of her teammates, Olena Olefirenko, tested positive for ethamivan. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she reached the B final in the women's double sculls.

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