Vasil Fyodaravich Yakusha ( be, Васіль Фёдаравіч Якуша, 30 June 1958 – 24 November 2020) was a Belarusian

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who competed for the

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in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the

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. During most of his career, he was a single sculler. He was born in

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, Ukraine. At the 1980 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the

single sculls A single scull (or a scull) is a rowing boat designed for a single person who propels the boat with two oars, one in each hand. Racing boats (often called "shells") are long, narrow, and broadly semi-circular in cross-section in order to minim ...

event. At the

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, he came eighth. At the 1982 World Rowing Championships, he won the silver medal. At the

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, he came fourth. He did not attend the

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, USA, due to the Eastern Bloc boycott. At the 1985 World Rowing Championships, he came fourth. At the

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, he won the bronze medal. At the

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, South Korea, he and his partner

Oleksandr Marchenko Oleksandr Mykolaiovych Marchenko ( uk, Олександр Миколайович Марченко, born 12 January 1968 in Kherson) is a Ukrainian rower. He and his partner Vasil Yakusha won the bronze medal for the Soviet Union in ...

won the bronze medal in the

double sculls A double scull is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two persons who propel the boat by sculling with two oars each, one in each hand. Racing boats (often called "shells") are long, narrow, and broadly ...

competition. Yakusha died on 24 November 2020 at the age of 62.На 63-м году жизни ушел из жизни Василий Фёдорович Якуша

References

1958 births 2020 deaths Belarusian male rowers Soviet male rowers Olympic rowers for the Soviet Union Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics World Rowing Championships medalists for the Soviet Union {{USSR-rowing-Olympic-medalist-stub