Liudmila Vauchok

Liudmila Vauchok
Medal record
Competitor for  Belarus
Women's paralympic cross country skiing
2006 Turin 10 km
2010 Vancouver 10 km
2006 Turin 2.5 km
2006 Turin 5 km
2006 Turin 3 × 2.5 km relay
Women's paralympic rowing
2008 Beijing Single sculls

Liudmila Vauchok (Belarusian: Людмілa Ваўчок, Russian: Людмила Волчек, born June 19, 1981, Smilavichy) is Belarusian Paralympian.

She had excelled in athletics and she had won the Belarusian national titles in runs between 1500 and 5000 meters distances before she injured her spine in 2001 and was forced to use a wheelchair. She stayed involved in sports after her injury winning podium finishes in national competitions in armwrestling, athletics and dance. She dominated especially in cross country skiing.

Vauchok participated in the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin winning 10-kilometer skiing race and adding three bronzes.

In 2007 she finished second in the rowing world championships in Munich-Oberschleißheim in the women's single sculls Paralympic event.

Rowing was included into the 2008 Summer Paralympics program and Vauchok won silver medal in the women's single sculls event, the first ever Paralympic rowing final.

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