Yelena Volchetskaya
Yelena Volchetskaya at the 1964 Olympics
Personal information
Born (1944-12-04) 4 December 1944
Grodno, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Height1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
SportArtistic gymnastics
ClubSK VS Hrodna
Medal record
Representing the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1964 TokyoTeam all around

Elena Vladimirovna Volchetskaya (Belarusian: Алена Уладзіміраўна Цюнянкова (Валчэцкая); Russian: Елена Владимировна Волчецкая; born 4 December 1944) is a Soviet and Belarusian retired artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a gold medal in the team all around competition. Individually her best results were fifth place in the vault and eighth all around.[1]

During her career she won five national titles: three in the vault (1961, 1962, 1965) and two on the balance beam (1963, 1964). In 1966 she broke her ankle. The same year she married, changing her last name to Tyunenkova, and next year gave birth to her first daughter, effectively retiring from sport.[2]

In 1965 she graduated from an institute of pedagogy,[3] and for some 30 years trained gymnasts in her native Grodno. She was the first coach of Olga Korbut, but after one and half years passed her to Renald Knysh, who previously raised Volchetskaya. Between 1998 and 2006 she coached in Minneapolis, United States, together with Nikolai Miligulo and Olga Gotsmanova. In 2006, she returned to Grodno to her 94-year-old mother and daughters Tatyana and Irina.[2]

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  1. ↑ "Yelena Volchetskaya". Bio, Stats, and Results. Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  2. 1 2 Protsenko, Igor (4 January 2007). Дорогая Елена Владимировна. Belarus Today (in Russian). Sovetskaya Belorussia. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  3. ↑ Волчецкая Елена Владимировна — Олимпийская энциклопедия — Яндекс.Словари. Olympic encyclopedia (in Russian). Yandeks.Slovari. 2006. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
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