Victoria Tereshchuk
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| Born | 18 February 1982 Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Modern pentathlon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Sergey Turobov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Victoria Anatoliïvna Tereshchuk (Терещук Вікторія Анатоліївна; born 18 February 1982) is a female former modern pentathlete from Ukraine. A competitor since 1999 she was awarded a bronze medal in the women's modern pentathlon event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing but was subsequently stripped of the medal after a doping re-test. She was World Champion in the individual and mixed relay events in 2011. For her World Championship victories, she was named Ukrainian Sportswoman of the Year and received the Order of Princess Olga in the Second Class. She is also the 2008 European Champion and competed at the 2004 and 2012 Olympic modern pentathlon tournaments, where she finished seventh and twenty-third respectively.
Personal life
Tereshchuk was born on 18 February 1982 in Luhansk, Ukraine.[1] She took up modern pentathlon in 1999[2] and began competing out of ZS Luhansk,[1] where she met her coach Sergey Turobov. Of all the constituent events of modern pentathlon, she considered swimming and the cross-country run to be her specialties and fencing, Turobov's specialty, to be her weakest. She married Turobov in 2005[2] and missed the 2009 season to have a son.[3]
International career
Tereshchuk participated in her first major international competition in August 2001 when she entered the Junior World Championships in Budapest, Hungary and placed 12th. Her first senior World Championship was the 2003 edition, held in Pesaro, Italy, where she finished 27th, and her first senior European Championship came the following month in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, where she came in 34th. She earned her first podium finish in December when she came in second at a World Cup event, followed by her first victory at the Westel World Cup in May 2004. After coming in 6th at the World Championships later that month in Moscow, Russia, her next stop was the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she finished in 7th.[4]
At the next three European Championships, Tereshchuk finished 30th, 18th, and 16th, and placed 12th at the
After missing the 2009 season to have a child, Tereshchuk returned in 2010 and finished second in that year's mixed relay event at the
References
- ^ a b c d Gjerde, Arild; Jeroen Heijmans; Bill Mallon; Hilary Evans (May 2016). "Viktoriya Tereshchuk Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics. Sports Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
- ^ Gazeta.ru. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
- ^ a b Pound, Matt (17 July 2012). "Modern Pentathlete Tereshuk Looking for Family Olympic Gold". SportsFeatures.com. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
- ^ a b c d "Athlete Profile: Victoria Tereshuk". Results. Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne. 1 October 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
- ^ "Schoneborn wins gold in Women's Modern Pentathlon". Beijing 2008. 22 August 2008. Archived from the original on 24 August 2008. Retrieved 22 August 2008.
- ^ "IOC strips Ukrainian of 2008 Olympic bronze for doping". ESPN.com. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- ^ Espagnac, Sylvie (4 April 2012). "International Sports Federations" (PDF). Olympic Highlights (992). International Olympic Committee: 1. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
