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{{Short description|Belarusian canoeist (born 1980)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2014}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
|name=
|image= Abalmasau, Piatrushenka, Litvinchuk, Makhneu 2010 Belarusian stamp.jpg
|image_size     = 240px
|caption= Beijing K-4 1000 m team on a 2010 Belarusian stamp: Abalmasau, Piatrushenka (2nd left), Litvinchuk and Makhneu
|birth_date= {{birth date and age|1980|12|25|df=y}}
|birth_place= [[Kalinkavičy]], [[Belarus]]
|height = 1.91 m
|weight = 91 kg
|sport=[[Canoe racing|Canoe sprint]]
|club=SK FPB Mazyr
|coach = Vladimir Shantarovich
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|medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport|Men's [[canoe sprint]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{BLR}}}}
{{MedalOlympic}}
{{MedalGold|[[2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing]]|[[Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's K-4 1000 metres|K-4 1000 m]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2012 Summer Olympics|2012 London]]|[[Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 200 metres|K-2 200 m]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]]|[[Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 500 metres|K-2 500 m]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing]]|[[Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 500 metres|K-2 500 m]]}}
{{MedalComp|[[ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2005 Zagreb]]|K-4 500 m}}
{{MedalGold|[[2007 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2007 Duisburg]]|K-2 200 m}}
{{MedalGold|[[2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2009 Dartmouth]]|K-2 200 m}}
{{MedalGold|[[2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2009 Dartmouth]]|K-2 500 m}}
{{MedalGold|[[2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2009 Dartmouth]]|K-4 200 m}}
{{MedalGold|[[2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2009 Dartmouth]]|K-4 1000 m}}
{{MedalGold|[[2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2010 Poznań]]|K-2 500 m}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2002 Seville]]|K-4 500 m}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2003 Gainesville]]|K-2 500 m}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2007 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2007 Duisburg]]|K-2 500 m}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2010 Poznań]]|K-4 1000 m}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2013 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2013 Duisburg]]|K–2 500 m}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2005 Zagreb]]|K-4 200 m}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2006 Szeged]]|K-4 1000 m}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2011 Szeged]]|K-2 200 m}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2014 Moscow]]|K-2 500 m}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2017 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2017 Račice]]|[[2017 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's K-2 500 metres|K-2 500 m]]}}
{{MedalComp|[[Canoe Sprint European Championships|European Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2011 Canoe Sprint European Championships|2011 Belgrade]]|K-2 500 m}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2011 Canoe Sprint European Championships|2011 Belgrade]]|K-2 200 m}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2012 Canoe Sprint European Championships|2012 Zagreb]]|K-2 500 m}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2014 Canoe Sprint European Championships|2014 Brandenburg]]|K-2 500 m}}
}}
'''Raman Ivanavich Piatrushenka''' or '''Roman Petrushenko''' ({{langx|be|Раман Іванавіч Пятрушэнка}}; born 25 December 1980) is a Belarusian [[Canoe sprint|sprint canoeist]]  who has competed since 2000. Competing in three [[Summer Olympics]], he won four medals with one gold (K-4 1000 m: [[2008 Summer Olympics|2008]]), one silver (K-2 200m: [[2012 Summer Olympics|2012]]) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004]], 2008). 

Piatrushenka's first success on the international stage came at the 2000 European under-23 Championships in [[Boulogne-sur-Mer|Boulogne]], [[France]] as a member of the Belarus K-4 crew which won both the 500 m and 1000 m gold medals.

At the 2001 European championships in [[Milan]], he was persuaded to enter the K-4 races, winning his first senior medals – the 500 m and 1000 m bronze. In the K-1 1000m however, he could only finish 17th.

At the 2002 European under-23 Championships in [[Zagreb]], he won the K-1 1000 m gold medal, as well as retaining both K-4 titles. Having rejoined the senior K-4 crew on a permanent basis, he won his first [[2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|world championship]] medal, the K-4 1000 m silver, in [[Seville]]. Senior K-1 races were proving harder though and he again failed to reach any major finals in 2002.

Realising he was not yet ready to challenge for senior K-1 medals he instead teamed up with [[Vadzim Makhneu]] to compete in K-2 races. On their first World Cup outing in [[Szeged]] in May 2003, they beat a world-class field including Germans [[Ronald Rauhe|Rauhe]] and [[Tim Wieskötter|Wieskötter]] over 500 m. At the [[2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2003 World Championships]] in [[Gainesville, Georgia|Gainesville]], USA, they claimed the silver medal.

In 2004 at the Athens Olympics they won the K-2 500 m bronze medal.

In 2005 they took a break from the K-2 (and each other). Meanwhile, the Belarusian four, with Piatrushenka as the "engine", established themselves as the top K-4 500m crew in the world. A gold medal at the European Championships in [[Poznań]] was followed by victory in the [[2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|World Championship]] final in Zagreb. This was Belarus's first world championship team kayak gold medal since independence. He also won nine more medals at the [[ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships]] with six gold (K-2 200 m: [[2007 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2007]], [[2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2009]]; K-2 500 m: 2009, [[2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2010]]; K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 1000 m: 2009), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 1000 m: 2010), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: [[2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2006]]).

In June 2015, he competed in the [[European Games 2015|inaugural European Games]], for [[Belarus at the 2015 European Games|Belarus]] in [[Canoe sprint at the 2015 European Games|canoe sprint]], in the Men's K-2 1000m with [[Vitaliy Bialko]] and K-4 1000m with [[Pavel Miadzvedzeu]], [[Aleh Yurenia]], and Vitaliy Bialko. He earned bronze medals in both areas.

==References==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120311160710/http://zap.norex.ca/bio/athlete/89/ Canoe09.ca profile]
* {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105013709/http://canoeicf.com/site/canoeint/if/downloads/result/Pages%201-41%20from%20Medal%20Winners%20ICF%20updated%202007-2.pdf?MenuID=Results%2F1107%2F0%2CMedal%5Fwinners%5Fsince%5F1936%2F1510%2F0 |date=5 January 2010 |title=Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint). ''CanoeICF.com''. International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–41 |url2=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113142416/http://www.bcu.org.uk/files/Pages%201-41%20from%20Medal%20Winners%20ICF%20updated%202007-2.pdf |date2=13 January 2016 |title2=BCU.org.uk}}
* {{Webarchive |url=https://www.webcitation.org/5l9vPO85Y?url=http://www.canoeicf.com/site/canoeint/if/downloads/result/Pages%2042-83%20from%20Medal%20Winners%20ICF%20updated%202007.pdf?MenuID=Results%2F1107%2F0%2CMedal%5Fwinners%5Fsince%5F1936%2F1510%2F0 |date=9 November 2009 |title=Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines. ''CanoeICF.com''. International Canoe Federation. pp. 42–83 |url2=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311071809/http://bcu.org.uk/files/pages%2042-83%20from%20medal%20winners%20icf%20updated%202007.pdf |date2=11 March 2016 |title2=BCU.org.uk}}
* {{Cite web |editor-last=Kamber |editor-first=Raymond |editor-link=Raymond Kamber |date=2008 |url=https://www.canoeicf.com/sites/default/files/results_history_-_complete_medal_winners_icf_updated_2007.pdf |title=Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) |website=CanoeICF.com |publisher=[[International Canoe Federation]] |pages=1-83 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518200125/https://www.canoeicf.com/sites/default/files/results_history_-_complete_medal_winners_icf_updated_2007.pdf |archive-date=18 May 2018}}
* {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/roman-petrushenko-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417235523/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/roman-petrushenko-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Roman Petrushenko}}

==External links==
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{Olympics.com|raman-piatrushenka}}
* {{NOC Belarus|petrushenko}}

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