Kateryna Tarasenko (; born 6 August 1987 in

Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper River, Dnipro River, from which it takes its name. Dnipro is t ...

) is a Ukrainian rower. Along with

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, she finished 7th in the women's double sculls at the

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. Both of them won a gold medal at the

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in the

quadruple sculls A quadruple sculling boat, often simply called a quad and abbreviated as a 4x, is a racing shell used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for four people who propel the boat by sculling with two oars, or "sculls", one in each han ...

event with Nataliya Dovgodko and Anastasiya Kozhenkova. Tarasenko received

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in 2012. Tarasenko is married to , an academic rower and European championship winner. They have two children.

References

* * 1987 births Living people Ukrainian female rowers Rowers from Dnipro Olympic rowers for Ukraine Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Ukraine Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics World Rowing Championships medalists for Ukraine European Rowing Championships medalists 21st-century Ukrainian sportswomen {{Ukraine-rowing-bio-stub