Vasyl Yurchenko
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Vasyl Yurchenko (Template:Langx)(alternate spellings: Vasily Yurchenko, Vasiliy Jurtzhenko; born 26 May 1950) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals. This included one silver (C-1 1000 m: 1976) and one bronze (C-2 1000 m: 1980).
Yurchenko had better success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning 12 medals. This included seven golds (C-1 1000 m: 1974, 1975; C-1 10000 m: 1973, 1975; C-2 1000 m: 1977, 1979; C-2 10000 m: 1979), four silvers (C-1 10000 m: 1971, 1974, 1977, 1978), and one bronze (C-2 500 m: 1977).
His daughter Kateryna competed for Ukraine in canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
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- 1950 births
- Canoeists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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- Living people
- Sportspeople from Cherkasy Oblast
- Soviet male canoeists
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- Olympic canoeists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen