Yelizaveta Dementyeva

Yelizaveta Dementyeva
Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1956 Melbourne K-1 500 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1958 Prague K-1 500 m
Silver medal – second place 1958 Prague K-2 500 m

Yelizaveta Dementyeva (née Kislova; 5 March 1928 – 27 July 2022)[1] was a Russian canoe sprinter who competed in the late 1950s. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, she won a gold medal in the K-1 500 m event. Dementyeva also won two medals at the 1958 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Prague with a gold in the K-1 500 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events.[2]

  1. ^ Олимпийская чемпионка Елизавета Кислова умерла в Петербурге (in Russian)
  2. ^ "Elizaveta DEMENTYEVA". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 3 November 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2023.