Irina Anatolyevna Ilchenko (; born 3 August 1968, in
Ivanovo
Ivanovo (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Russia and the administrative center and largest city of Ivanovo Oblast, located northeast of Moscow and approximately from Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Russia, Vladimir and Kostroma. ...
), known as Irina Ilchenko or Irina Smirnova, is a retired Russian
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
player. Born in
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...
, she competed for the
Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics, the
Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics
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, and
Russia at the 1996 Summer Olympics
The Russian Federation competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, USA. It was the first time since 1912 that the nation participated separately from the other former countries of the Soviet Union. Russia had been a member of the Unified Team ...
.
She is the mother of the Russian player
Ksenia Ilchenko Parubets.
References
External links
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Volleybox.net profile
1968 births
Living people
Volleyball players from Yekaterinburg
Soviet women's volleyball players
Russian women's volleyball players
Volleyball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Volleyball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union
Olympic volleyball players for the Unified Team
Olympic volleyball players for Russia
Olympic silver medalists for the Unified Team
Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic medalists in volleyball
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games
Goodwill Games medalists in volleyball
Galatasaray S.K. (women's volleyball) players
Eczacıbaşı Dynavit players
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia
Expatriate volleyball players in Italy
Russian expatriate volleyball players in Turkey
20th-century Russian sportswomen
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