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May 26, 1950 Grushkivka, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine 73 years old
Ukrainian canoeist
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About Vasyl Yurchenko
- Vasyl Yurchenko (Russian: ??????? ???????)(alternate spellings: Vasily Yurchenko, Vasiliy Jurtzhenko, born May 26, 1950) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s.
- Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals.
- This included one silver (C-1 1000 m: 1976) and one bronze (C-2 1000 m: 1980). Yurchenko had better success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning 12 medals.
- This included seven golds (C-1 1000 m: 1974, 1975; C-1 10000 m: 1973, 1975; C-2 1000 m: 1977, 1979; C-2 10000 m: 1979), four silvers (C-1 10000 m: 1971, 1974, 1977, 1978), and one bronze (C-2 500 m: 1977). His daughter Kateryna competed for Ukraine in canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
