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| Full name | Tatiana Felixivna Lysenko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1975-06-23)June 23, 1975 (age 50) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former countries represented |  CIS ( Unified Team) Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Dynamo Kherson[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach | Oleg Ostapenko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tatiana Felixivna Lysenko (Ukrainian:Тетяна Фелiксiвна Лисенко; born June 23, 1975) is aSoviet and Ukrainian formergymnast,[3] who had her senior competitive career from 1990 to 1994. Lysenko was a member of theSoviet 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 theOlympic Games). She is the 1992Olympic champion on balance beam.
Lysenko was born inKherson,Ukrainian SSR, and has aUkrainian-Jewish background.[4][5] She took up gymnastics at the age of seven, and made her senior debut in 1990, winning the all-around competition at the World Cup. In 1990, Lysenko participated at the1990 Goodwill Games inSeattle and won a gold medal in team competition[6]
Next year she was selected for theworld championships inIndianapolis, where she won the team competition. She qualified to the all-around competition, ahead of her talented teammatesOksana Chusovitina,Rozalia Galiyeva andNatalia Kalinina, but fell from beam and did not win any individual medal.
Lysenko's most notable achievements came at the1992 Summer Olympics inBarcelona. She represented theUnified Team (ex-Soviets) along withSvetlana Boguinskaya,Tatiana Gutsu,Elena Grudneva, Rozalia Galiyeva and Oksana Chusovitina. They won the team title by a comfortable margin. Lysenko finished 7th 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).[1]
Unlike many of her Soviet teammates, Lysenko opted to continue after the breakup of the USSR, and represented her nativeUkraine at the1993 World Championships inBirmingham. 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 (representingUzbekistan).
In 1993, Lysenko, representing Ukraine, competed at the1993 Summer Universiade inBuffalo and won gold medals in all-around, team and balance beam.[7]
Lysenko continued to compete internationally in 1994. She placed 18th in the all-around at theWorld Championships in Brisbane. In the event finals, she placed fourth on vault. She retired after the World Championships.
After retiring from competitions Lysenko moved to theUnited States and now lives inCalifornia. She graduated from theUniversity of San Francisco School of Law and was admitted the California State Bar in 2005. In 2002, she was inducted into theInternational Jewish Sports Hall of Fame,[2] and in 2016 into theInternational Gymnastics Hall of Fame. She is married and has a daughter.[8]
| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| 1989 | International Junior Championships |  |  | 4 | | | |
| Druzhba |  | | |||||
| Junior URS-GDR Dual Meet | | | |||||
| 1990 | Chunichi Cup | | | | | | |
| Tokyo Cup | | ||||||
| Goodwill Games | | ||||||
| URS-USA Dual Meet | | 5 | |||||
| Blume Memorial | 9 | ||||||
| USSR Championships | 4 | ||||||
| USSR Cup | 8 | | |||||
| World Cup | | 4 | | 4 | | ||
| 1991 | Blume Memorial | | |||||
| USSR Spartakiade | | ||||||
| URS-ITA Dual Meet | | 5 | |||||
| World Championships | | 13 | 8 | ||||
| 1992 | World Stars | | 4 | 7 | | ||
| DTB Cup | | | | | |||
| CIS Championships | | ||||||
| CIS Cup | 4 | | |||||
| World Championships | 9 | 7 | | ||||
| European Championships | 4 | 6 | | 4 | |||
| Gander Memorial | | ||||||
| Olympic Games | | 7 | | | |||
| 1993 | Birmingham Classic | | |||||
| UKR-USA-BLR Tri-Meet | | ||||||
| French International | | ||||||
| Soapberry World Challenge | | ||||||
| Gander Memorial | | ||||||
| University Games | | | 7 | | 6 | ||
| DTB Cup | | 6 | 4 | ||||
| World Championships | | 5 | |||||
| 1994 | |||||||
| World Championships | 18 | 4 |
