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{{short description|Ukrainian gymnast}}
{{About|the gymnast|the hammer thrower of the same name|Tatyana Lysenko}}
{{Infobox gymnast
| name            = Tatiana Lysenko
| image           = Miloşovici, Ónodi, Lysenko 1992 Olympics.jpg
| image_size      = 250px
| caption         = Lysenko (right) at the 1992 Olympics
| fullname        = Tatiana Felixivna Lysenko
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| nickname        = 
| country         = {{UKR}}
| formercountry   = {{CIS}} ({{EUN}})<br />{{URS}}
| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|1975|06|23}}
| birth_place     = [[Kherson]], [[Ukrainian SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]<ref name=sr>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417162827/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ly/tetiana-lysenko-1.html Tetiana Lysenko]. sports-reference.com</ref><ref name=hall>[http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/TatianaLysenko.htm TATIANA LYSENKO]. jewishsports.net</ref>
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| discipline      = WAG
| level           = 
| natlteam        = 
| club            = Dynamo Kherson<ref name=sr/>
| gym             = 
| collegeteam     = 
| headcoach       = Oleg Ostapenko
| assistcoach     = 
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| retired         = 1994
| show-medals     = yes
| medaltemplates  = <!-- see [[Template:MedalRelatedTemplates]] -->
{{MedalCountry | {{CIS}} ({{EUN}})}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
[[File:Olympic rings.svg|center|60px]]
{{MedalGold|1992 Barcelona|Team}}
{{MedalGold|1992 Barcelona|[[Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's balance beam|Balance Beam]]}}
{{MedalBronze|1992 Barcelona|[[Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's vault|Vault]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1992 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1992 Paris]]|Floor exercise}}
{{MedalCountry | {{USSR}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1991 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1991 Indianapolis]]|Team}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Artistic Gymnastics World Cup|World Cup Final]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1990 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Final|1990 Brussels]]|All-around}}
{{MedalGold|[[1990 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Final|1990 Brussels]]|Uneven bars}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1990 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Final|1990 Brussels]]|Floor exercise}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Goodwill Games]]}}
{{MedalGold |[[1990 Goodwill Games|1990 Seattle]] | Team }}
{{MedalCountry|{{UKR}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1993 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1993 Birmingham]]|All-around}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|European Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1992 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1992 Nantes]]|Uneven bars}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Universiade|Summer Universiade]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1993 Summer Universiade|1993 Buffalo]] | All-around }}
{{MedalGold | [[1993 Summer Universiade|1993 Buffalo]] | Team}}
{{MedalGold | [[1993 Summer Universiade|1993 Buffalo]] | Balance beam}} 
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'''Tatiana Felixivna Lysenko''' ({{langx|uk|Тетяна Фелiксiвна Лисенко}}; born June 23, 1975) is a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] and Ukrainian former [[gymnast]],<ref name="Wechsler2008">{{cite book|last=Wechsler|first=Bob|title=Day By Day In Jewish Sports History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&pg=PA214|accessdate=5 August 2012|year=2008|publisher=KTAV Publishing House, Inc.|isbn=9781602800137|pages=214–}}</ref> who had her senior competitive career from 1990 to 1994. Lysenko was a member of the [[Soviet Union]] team during the early 1990s, a period when its pool of talent was deep (the USSR never lost the women's team competition in the [[Olympic Games]]). She is the 1992 [[Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Olympic champion]] on balance beam.

==Gymnastics career==
Lysenko was born in [[Kherson]], [[Ukrainian SSR]], and has a [[Ukrainian-Jewish]] background.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes: An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and the 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars|author=Horvitz, P.S.|date=2007|publisher=Specialist Press International|isbn=9781561719075|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xcfef_d2es4C|page=196|accessdate=2 March 2015}}</ref><ref>[http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/16909/5-u-s-athletes-get-in-jewish-hall-of-fame 5 U.S. athletes get in Jewish hall of fame] LOS ANGELES, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Friday, December 7, 2001</ref> She took up gymnastics at the age of seven, and made her senior debut in 1990, winning the all-around competition at the World Cup. In 1990, Lysenko participated at the [[1990 Goodwill Games]] in [[Seattle]] and won a gold medal in team competition <ref>{{Citation |title=1990 Goodwill Games - Women's Team Competition Gymnastics | date=19 June 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llUSAeLdXZ0 |language=en |access-date=2022-11-19}}</ref>

Next year she was selected for the [[World Gymnastics Championships|world championships]] in [[Indianapolis]], where she won the team competition. She qualified to the all-around competition, ahead of her talented teammates [[Oksana Chusovitina]], [[Rozalia Galiyeva]] and [[Natalia Kalinina]], but fell from beam and did not win any individual medal.

Lysenko's most notable achievements came at the [[1992 Summer Olympics]] in [[Barcelona]]. She represented the [[Unified Team at the Olympics|Unified Team]] (ex-Soviets) along with [[Svetlana Boguinskaya]], [[Tatiana Gutsu]], [[Elena Grudneva]], Rozalia Galiyeva and Oksana Chusovitina. They won the team title by a comfortable margin. Lysenko finished 7th all-around, but she won the bronze medal in the vault after performing the most difficult vault in the entire competition, a double-twisting Yurchenko (9.912). Lysenko then won the gold in the beam event (9.975).<ref name=sr/>

Unlike many of her Soviet teammates, Lysenko opted to continue after the breakup of the USSR, and represented her native [[Ukraine]] at the [[1993 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1993 World Championships]] in [[Birmingham]]. She won bronze in the all-around, which would have been gold had she not stepped out of the floor. Lysenko was one of only two ex-Soviets on the podium along with Oksana Chusovitina (representing [[Uzbekistan]]).

In 1993, Lysenko, representing Ukraine, competed at the [[1993 Summer Universiade]] in [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]] and won gold medals in all-around, team and balance beam.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://universiade.fjct.fit.ac.jp/en/kekka/buffalo/gymn.html |title = "Gymnastics results of the 1993 Summer Universiade"| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726045049/http://universiade.fjct.fit.ac.jp/en/kekka/buffalo/gymn.html | archive-date=2010-07-26 }}</ref>

Lysenko continued to compete internationally in 1994. She placed 18th in the all-around at the [[1994 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]] in Brisbane. In the event finals, she placed fourth on vault. She retired after the World Championships.

==Later life==
After retiring from competitions Lysenko moved to the [[United States]] and now lives in [[California]]. She graduated from the [[University of San Francisco School of Law]] and was admitted the California State Bar in 2005. In 2002, she was inducted into the [[International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame]],<ref name=hall/> and in 2016 into the [[International Gymnastics Hall of Fame]]. She is married and has a daughter.<ref name=ighof>[http://www.ighof.com/honorees/2016_Tatiana_Lysenko.php Tatiana Lysenko]. [[International Gymnastics Hall of Fame]]</ref>

==Competitive history==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size: 95%;"
! Year
! Event
! style="width:30px;"|Team
! style="width:30px;"|AA
! style="width:30px;"|[[Gymnastics vault|VT]]
! style="width:30px;"|[[Gymnastics uneven bars|UB]]
! style="width:30px;"|[[Gymnastics balance beam|BB]]
! style="width:30px;"|[[Gymnastics floor|FX]]
|-
| rowspan="3" | '''1989'''
| align=left | International Junior Championships|| ||{{silver2}} ||{{gold1}} ||4 ||{{gold1}} ||{{silver2}}
|-
| align=left | Druzhba|| ||{{bronze3}} || || || ||{{gold1}}
|-
| align=left | Junior URS-GDR Dual Meet||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} || || || ||
|-
| rowspan="8" | '''1990'''
| align=left | Chunichi Cup|| || {{silver2}}|| {{bronze3}}||{{gold1}} ||{{bronze3}} ||{{silver2}}
|-
| align=left | Tokyo Cup|| || || ||{{gold1}} || ||
|-
| align=left | [[Gymnastics at the 1990 Goodwill Games|Goodwill Games]]||{{gold1}} || || || || ||
|-
| align=left | URS-USA Dual Meet||{{gold1}} ||5 || || || ||
|-
| align=left | Blume Memorial|| || 9|| || || ||
|-
| align=left | USSR Championships|| ||4 || || || ||
|-
| align=left | USSR Cup|| ||8 ||{{bronze3}} || || ||
|-
| align=left | [[1990 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup|World Cup]]|| ||{{gold1}}||4|| {{gold1}}||4 ||{{bronze3}}
|-
| rowspan="4" | '''1991'''
| align=left | Blume Memorial|| ||{{bronze3}} || || || ||
|-
| align=left | USSR Spartakiade|| || {{silver2}}|| || || ||
|-
| align=left | URS-ITA Dual Meet|| {{gold1}}|| 5|| || || ||
|-bgcolor=#CCCCFF 
| align=left | [[1991 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]]||{{gold1}}||13 || || 8|| ||
|-
| rowspan="8" | '''1992'''
| align=left | World Stars|| ||{{silver2}} || ||4 ||7 ||{{bronze3}}
|-
| align=left | DTB Cup|| ||{{silver2}} ||{{silver2}} || ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}}
|-
| align=left | CIS Championships|| || {{gold1}}|| || || ||
|-
| align=left | CIS Cup|| || 4|| || ||{{silver2}} ||
|-bgcolor=#CCCCFF 
| align=left | [[1992 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]]|| || || ||9 || 7||{{bronze3}}
|-bgcolor=#F5F6CE
| align=left | [[1992 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|European Championships]]|| ||4 ||6 ||{{silver2}} || ||4
|-
| align=left | Gander Memorial|| || {{silver2}}|| || || ||
|-bgcolor=98FB98
| align=left | '''[[Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]'''||{{gold1}} ||7 || {{bronze3}}|| || {{gold1}}||
|-
| rowspan="8" | '''1993'''
| align=left | Birmingham Classic|| ||{{bronze3}} || || || ||
|-
| align=left | UKR-USA-BLR Tri-Meet|| ||{{bronze3}} || || || ||
|-
| align=left | French International|| || || || || {{silver2}}||
|-
| align=left | Soapberry World Challenge|| ||{{bronze3}} || || || ||
|-
| align=left | Gander Memorial|| ||{{bronze3}} || || || ||
|-
| align=left | [[Gymnastics at the 1991 Summer Universiade|University Games]]||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} ||7 || ||{{gold1}} ||6
|-
| align=left | DTB Cup|| || || {{bronze3}}||6 || 4||
|-bgcolor=#CCCCFF 
| align=left | [[1993 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]]|| ||{{bronze3}} || ||5 || ||
|-
| rowspan="2" | '''1994'''
|-bgcolor=#CCCCFF 
| align=left | [[1994 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]]|| || 18|| 4|| || ||
|}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://themedalcount.com/tatiana-lysenko/ | title=Tatiana Lysenko | date=26 May 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gymn-forum.net/bios/women/lysenko.html | title=Gymn Forum: Tatiana Lysenko Biography }}</ref>

==See also==

*[[List of Jews in sports#Gymnastics|List of select Jewish gymnasts]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Tetiana Lysenko}}
* {{sports links}}
*[http://www.gymn-forum.net/bios/women/lysenko.html List of competitive results at Gymn Forum]

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