Zinaida Turchyna

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Zinaida Turchyna

Igor Turchin
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1976 Montreal Team 1980 Moscow Team 1988 Seoul Team World Championship 1982 Hungary Team 1986 Netherlands Team 1975 Soviet Union Team 1978 Czechoslovakia Team 1973 Yugoslavia Team

Zinaida Mykhaylivna Turchyna (

Stolitenko was brought to handball in 1959 by Igor Turchin, a team-sports coach 10 years her senior, who later headed HC Spartak Kyiv in 1962–1993 and the Soviet handball team in 1973–1993. She married him in 1965 and changed her last name from Stolitenko to Turchyna. They had a daughter Natalia (born 1971) and a son, Mikhail (born 1983). Natalia played handball alongside her mother for Spartak Kyiv, while Mikhail went into basketball.^[5] After the death of her husband in 1993 Turchyna took over his coaching positions at Spartak Kyiv and the Ukrainian national team. She retired from coaching in 1996, but still works as the manager of Spartak Kyiv.^[6][7] Since 2002 she lives with her boyfriend Vladimir.^[8]

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