Aleksandra Pankina
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| Born | 2 January 1972 Bykhaw, Byelorussian SSR, USSR | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Igor Zuborenko | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
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Aleksandra Yuryevna Pankina (Belarusian: Александра Юрьевна Панкина; born 2 January 1972) is a Belarusian rower, who is perhaps best known for winning a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Personal life
[edit]Pankina was born on 2 January 1972 in Bykhov, then part of the Byelorussian SSR.[1] She was born the youngest child of a naval military family with two older sisters. As a child, she was unathletic, but her father forced her to participate in sports and so she did high jump at a boarding school called School No. 21 and later also shot put.[2] She was injured in Saint Petersburg when she twisted her knee during a jump on a trampoline, forcing her to retire from both sports before the deputy director for sports at the boarding school suggested she do rowing.[2]
She is currently married to Igor Zuborenko, a rower who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics.[2]
Career
[edit]In 1995, she competed at the 1995 World Rowing Championships in Tampere as part of eights, where they placed 5th.[3] In 1996, the Belarusian team for eights, which included Pankina, placed third at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[4] Two years later at the 1997 World Rowing Championships in Lac d'Aiguebelette she was part of the double fours and also took 5th place.[3] In 1997, she was awarded the honorary title of "Honored Master of Sports of the Republic of Belarus" for achieving high sporting results.[5] In June 1998, she placed third in coxed four at the Rowing World Cup.[6]
After retiring from rowing, she worked as a coach in rowing at "Spartak" at their Youth Sports School.[2] Starting in 2005, she worked as a chief specialist of the Department of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Mogilev City Executive Committee.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "ЗУБОРЕНКО (ПАНЬКИНА) Александра Юрьевна — ОЛИМПИЙСКИЕ ВЕРШИНЫ МОГИЛЕВСКОГО СПОРТА". libmogilev.by (in Russian). Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ a b c d e "Александра Зуборенко (Панькина) | Могилёвский областной исполнительный комитет". web.archive.org. 24 September 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ a b "За годы развития страны Быховщина взрастила немало спортсменов высокого класса, которыми гордится вся страна". bykhov.gov.by. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ "1996 год Белорусы в Атланте". noc.by. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ "Указ Президента Республики Беларусь от 4 июня 1997 г. №315 "О присвоении группе спортсменов почетного звания "Заслуженный мастер спорта Республики Беларусь"". web.archive.org. 13 September 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ "АКАДЕМИЧЕСКАЯ ГРЕБЛЯ". Sport Express (in Russian). 4 June 1998. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
External links
[edit]- Aleksandra Pankina at World Rowing
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Aleksandra Pankina". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.