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Tatiana Felixivna Lysenko (; born June 23, 1975) is a Soviet Union and Ukrainian former gymnast, who had her senior competitive career from 1990 to 1994. Lysenko was a member of the Soviet 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 the Olympic Games). She is the 1992 Olympic champion on balance beam.
Next year she was selected for the world championships in Indianapolis, where she won the team competition. She qualified to the all-around competition, ahead of her talented teammates Oksana Chusovitina, Rozalia Galiyeva and Natalia Kalinina, but fell from beam and did not win any individual medal.
Lysenko's most notable achievements came at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She represented the Unified Team (ex-Soviets) along with Svetlana 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).
Unlike many of her Soviet teammates, Lysenko opted to continue after the breakup of the USSR, and represented her native Ukraine at the 1993 World Championships in Birmingham. 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 (representing Uzbekistan).
In 1993, Lysenko, representing Ukraine, competed at the 1993 Summer Universiade in Buffalo and won gold medals in all-around, team and balance beam.
Lysenko continued to compete internationally in 1994. She placed 18th in the all-around at the World Championships in Brisbane. In the event finals, she placed fourth on vault. She retired after the World Championships.
Later life
After retiring from competitions Lysenko moved to the United States and now lives in California. She graduated from the University of San Francisco School of Law and was admitted the California State Bar in 2005. In 2002, she was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and in 2016 into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. She is married and has a daughter. Tatiana Lysenko. International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
Competitive history
1989 1990 1991 1992 4 1993 6 1994
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Categories: 1975 Births, Living People, Sportspeople From Kherson, Soviet Female Artistic Gymnasts, Ukrainian Female Artistic Gymnasts, Olympic Gold Medalists For The Unified Team, Olympic Bronze Medalists For The Unified Team, Olympic Medalists In Gymnastics, Gymnasts At The 1992 Summer Olympics, Medalists At The World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Jewish Ukrainian Sportspeople, Soviet Jews, Honoured Masters Of Sport Of The Ussr, International Jewish Sports Hall Of Fame Inductees, 21st-century Lawyers, Medalists At The 1992 Summer Olympics, 21st-century Ukrainian Women Lawyers
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