Marharyta Makhneva
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| Nationality | Belarusian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
13 February 1992 Khoiniki, Homel, Belarus[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Canoeing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Canoe sprint | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Marharyta Makhneva (née Tsishkevich, Belarusian: Маргарыта Рыгораўна Махнева (Цішкевіч); Łacinka: Marharyta Ryhoraŭna Machnieva (Ciškievič); born 13 February 1992) is a Belarusian sprint canoeist. She won two gold medals at the 2015 World Championships (K-2 200 m and K-4 500 m) and the bronze medal in K-4 500 metres at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1]
Career
Tsishkevich represented Belarus at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed only in two individual sprint kayak events. For her first event, the women's K-1 500 metres, she advanced directly into the semi-final rounds, after placing sixth in the heats, with a time of 2:01.216.[3] She was disqualified from the second semi-final race for breaking the four-metre "centre-lane" rule.[4] In the first ever women's K-1 200 metres, Tsishkevich repeated her last-place finish in the same heat by approximately twenty-one hundredths of a second (0.21) behind Denmark's Henriette Engel Hansen, clocking at 43.033 seconds.[5][6]
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Makhneva won bronze in the women's K-4 500 metres with Volha Khudzenka, Nadzeya Liapeshka, and Maryna Litvinchuk.[7]
References
- 1 2 3 Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Marharyta Tsishkevich". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- ↑ "Marharyta Tsishkevich at london2012.com". Archived from the original on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-17.
- ↑ "Women's Kayak Single (K1) 500m Heat 2". London 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- ↑ "Women's Kayak Single (K1) 500m Semifinal 2". London 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- ↑ "Women's Kayak Single (K1) 200m Semifinal 2". London 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- ↑ "Belarus' canoe sprinters reach Olympic finals". Belarusian Telegraph Agency. 10 August 2012. Archived from the original on 7 April 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- ↑ "Marharyta Makhneva at rio2016.com". Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-21.