Marharyta Makhneva

Marharyta Makhneva (Tsishkevich)
Personal information
Native name Маргарыта Рыгораўна Махнева (Цішкевіч)
Nationality Belarusian
Born (1992-02-13) 13 February 1992
Khoiniki, Homel, Belarus
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Sport Canoeing
Event(s) Canoe sprint

Marharyta Makhneva or 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.

Career

Tsishkevich represented Belarus at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed only in two individual sprint kayak events.[1][2] 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. Marharyta Tsishkevich at london2012.com at the Wayback Machine (archived May 30, 2013)
  2. "Marharyta Tsishkevich". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  3. "Women's Kayak Single (K1) 500m Heat 2". London 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  4. "Women's Kayak Single (K1) 500m Semifinal 2". London 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  5. "Women's Kayak Single (K1) 200m Semifinal 2". London 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  6. "Belarus' canoe sprinters reach Olympic finals". Belarusian Telegraph Agency. 10 August 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  7. Marharyta Makhneva at rio2016.com at the Wayback Machine (archived August 21, 2016)
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