Taisiya Filipivna Chenchik (; 30 January 1936 – 19 November 2013) was a

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high jumper. She competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished fifth and third, respectively. At the European championships she won a gold medal in 1966 and a silver in 1958. Chenchik also won the high jump event at the 1963 Universiade, 1967 European Indoor Championships, USSR-USA dual meets (1958–59, 1962–63, 1965) and Soviet championships (1957–59 and 1962). Chenchik was born in Ukraine in 1936. In 1941, when Germany invaded Ukraine during World War II, her family was evacuated to

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. There she took up athletics while studying at the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute. In 1959 she graduated in electrical engineering, and then worked as a lecturer at the same institute (1959–62) and at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (1963–91). In retirement she headed Moscow Veteran's Athletics Federation and was a board member of the Moscow Athletics Federation.

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1936 births Soviet female high jumpers Ukrainian female high jumpers Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union Burevestnik (sports society) sportspeople 2013 deaths European Athletics Championships medalists Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Soviet Union Medalists at the 1963 Summer Universiade Sportspeople from Chernihiv Oblast Soviet Athletics Championships winners {{Ukraine-athletics-bio-stub