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{{Short description|Ukrainian Soviet athlete}}
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|sport=Women's [[Athletics (sport)|Athletics]]
|nation=URS
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{{Medal|Competition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{Medal|Gold | [[1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Moscow]]|[[Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's pentathlon|Pentathlon]]}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[Universiade]]}}
{{Medal|Gold| [[1973 Summer Universiade|1973 Moscow]]|[[Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade#Women's events|Pentathlon]]}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[European Athletics Championships|European Championships]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[1974 European Athletics Championships|1974 Rome]]|[[1974 European Athletics Championships – Women's pentathlon|Pentathlon]]}}
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'''Nadiya Volodymyrivna Tkachenko''' ({{langx|uk|Надія Володимирівна Ткаченко}}) or '''Nadezhda Vladimirovna Tkachenko''' ({{langx|ru|Надежда Владимировна Ткаченко}}) (born 19 September 1948) is a Ukrainian former [[women's pentathlon|pentathlete]] who won gold at the 1980 Olympics.<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tk/nadiya-tkachenko-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417175357/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tk/nadiya-tkachenko-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|title=Nadiya Tkachenko Bio, Stats, and Results|author=OlyMADMen|work=Sports-Reference.com|access-date=12 May 2016}}</ref><ref name="noc-donetsk">{{cite web|url=http://noc-donetsk.org/olimpiyci-donbasu/15-olimpijtsi-donbassu/22-tkachenko-nadiya-volodimirivna|title=Ткаченко Надія Володимирівна [Tkachenko Nadiya Volodymyrivna]|work=Олімпійці Донбасу [Donbass Olympians]|date=20 March 2012|publisher=Donetsk Regional Branch, Ukrainian Olympic Committee|language=uk|access-date=12 May 2016}}</ref> She was born in [[Kremenchuk]], then in the [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]] in the [[Soviet Union]],<ref name="sports-reference"/> and took up pentathlon aged 18 training at the Vanguard [[Voluntary Sports Societies of the Soviet Union]] in [[Donetsk Oblast]].<ref name="sports-reference"/><ref name="noc-donetsk"/> She came second in pentathlon in the Soviet championships of 1971 and 1972,<ref name="noc-donetsk" /> and competed three times for the [[Soviet Union at the Olympics]].<ref name="sports-reference" /><ref name="noc-donetsk" />

She set her first world record (4839 points) winning the 1977 [[European Cup Combined Events#Pentathlon|European Cup]].<ref name="sports-reference"/><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.si.com/vault/1977/09/26/622733/a-roundup-of-the-week-sept-1218|title=A roundup of the week Sept. 12–18|date=26 September 1977|magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]]|access-date=12 May 2016}}</ref>  She won the [[1974 European Athletics Championships – Women's pentathlon|1974 European title]], but was stripped of the [[1978 European Athletics Championships – Women's pentathlon|1978 title]] after testing positive for [[Ergogenic use of anabolic steroids|anabolic steroids]] and given an 18-month ban.<ref>{{cite journal |date=December 1978 |title=Within the IFs: International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) |journal=Olympic Review |publisher=International Olympic Committee |issue=134 |page=725 |url=http://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1978/ore134/ore134w.pdf#page=4 |access-date=13 May 2016 |quote=five athletes having participated in the European athletic championships in Prague and having had positive doping tests have been stripped of their awards and cannot participate in any athletics events for a minimum period of 18 months. The athletes in question are : Nadjada [''sic''] Tkachenko [etc.] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912054752/http://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1978/ore134/ore134w.pdf#page=4 |archive-date=12 September 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Holt |first=John B. |date=June 1979 |title=Within the Federations: International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) |journal=Olympic Review |publisher=International Olympic Committee |issue=140 |pages=353–4 |url=http://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1979/ore140/ore140o.pdf#page=5 |format=PDF |access-date=13 May 2016 |quote=It was agreed to reinstate the following five athletes after a minimum period of 18 months from the date of the competition at which they infringed the IAAF doping rules at the European championships [... : ...]  Nadyezhda Tkachenko [etc.] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714180454/http://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1979/ore140/ore140o.pdf#page=5 |archive-date=14 July 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In May 1980, just after the ban, she scored 4880 points, which was not ratified as a record because the races were [[hand timing|hand timed]].<ref>{{cite journal |date=September 1980 |title=Within the International Federations: International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) |journal=Olympic Review |publisher=International Olympic Committee |issue=155 |url=http://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1980/ore155/ORE155p.pdf#page=2 |page=514 |format=PDF |access-date=16 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915202331/http://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1980/ore155/ORE155p.pdf#page=2 |archive-date=15 September 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In July she won the [[Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's pentathlon|1980 Olympic title]] with 5083 points,<ref name="sports-reference"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.european-athletics.org/mm/Document/EventsMeetings/General/01/27/31/44/StatisticsHandbookZ%C3%BCrich2014_Neutral.pdf|title=European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014|last=Jalava|first=Mirko|year=2014|publisher=European Athletic Association|pages=427, 435|access-date=12 May 2016}}</ref>  becoming the only woman ever to break 5000 points outdoors,{{#tag:ref
 |Strictly, the only woman to break 5000 points using the 1971 scoring tables, under which [[Burglinde Pollak]]'s 1970 record score of 5406 was reduced to 4775.<ref name="Matthews2012">
  {{cite book|last=Matthews|first=Peter|title=Historical Dictionary of Track and Field|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQFHe9RwE0wC&pg=PA164|access-date=11 May 2016|year=2012|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810867819|pages=164–5|chapter=Pentathlon}}
</ref> The indoor record of 5013 points was [[2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's pentathlon|set in 2012]] with the 1985 tables.|group="n"}}<ref name="sports-reference"/> with the final world record before the event was replaced in 1981 by the [[heptathlon]].<ref name="sports-reference"/>  The Soviet government awarded her the [[Order of the Red Banner of Labour]] and the title [[Honored Master of Sports of the USSR]].<ref name="noc-donetsk"/>

Since retiring from competition she has worked as a youth sports coach in Donetsk, of which she was named an [[Freedom of the City|honorary citizen]] in 2005.<ref name="noc-donetsk"/> A youth athletics competition in the city is named after her.<ref name="noc-donetsk"/>

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[[Category:Medalists at the 1973 Summer Universiade]]
[[Category:Soviet Athletics Championships winners]]


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