Liudmyla Luzan
![]() Luzan at the 2020 Summer Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nationality | Ukrainian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1997-03-27) 27 March 1997 (age 27) Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Canoe sprint | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Dynamo Poltava | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Mykola Matsapura | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Liudmyla Volodymyrivna Luzan (Ukrainian: Людмила Володимирівна Лузан; born 27 March 1997) is a Ukrainian sprint canoeist.[1] She is a two-time silver and a bronze Olympic medalist, three-time World champion and three-time European champion.[2]
Career
Luzan competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics where she won a silver medal in the C-1 event. She won her first international senior medal when she placed third at the 2018 European Championships in the C-1 500 metres. Luzan won gold medals at the 2021 European Championships in the C-1 500 metres and the C-2 500 metres with Anastasiia Chetverikova, in addition to a silver medal in the C-1 200 metres and a bronze medal in the C-2 200 metres with Chetverikova. She won the silver medal in the C-2 500 metres event with Chetverikova and the bronze medal in the C-1 200 metres event at 2020 Summer Olympics.[3][4] At the 2021 World Championships, Luzan won the gold medal in the C-2 500 metres event with Chetverikova, the silver medal in the C-1 500 metres event and the bronze medal in the C-4 500 metres with Chetverikova, Olena Tsyhankova and Yuliia Kolesnyk.
At the 2022 World Championships, Luzan won gold medals in the C-1 500 metres and the C-1 1000 metres, and a silver medal in the C-2 500 metres with Chetverikova. She won the gold medal in the C-2 500 metres with Chetverikova, and silver medals in the C-1 200 metres and the C-1 500 metres at the 2022 European Championships. At the 2023 European Games, Luzan won gold medals in the C-1 500 metres event and the C-2 500 metres event with Valeriia Tereta, and a silver medal in the C-1 200 metres event. She won the silver medal in the C-2 500 metres event at the 2024 Summer Olympics with Anastasiia Rybachok.[5]
Major results
Olympic Games
Year | C-1 200 | C-2 500 |
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2020 | ![]() | ![]() |
2024 | DNS FB | ![]() |
World championships
Year | C-1 200 | C-1 500 | C-1 1000 | C-2 200 | C-2 500 | C-4 500 | XC-2 500 | XC-4 500 |
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2015 | 3 FB | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
2017 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
2018 | 6 FB | 6 | — | 8 | — | — | — | |
2019 | — | 6 | 7 | — | — | — | ||
2021 | 4 | ![]() | — | ![]() | ![]() | — | — | |
2022 | 9 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | DNS | 5 | — | |
2023 | 7 | DNS F | 8 | — | ||||
2024 | — | ![]() | DSQ H | — | — | 7 |
References
- ^ Ukrainian Olympic Team at the Nanjing 2014, page 14
- ^ Canoer Liudmyla Luzan became Junior European champion
- ^ "Canoe Sprint LUZAN Liudmyla". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ Canoeist Lyudmila Luzan, representing Poltava region, won a bronze medal at the Olympics (in Ukrainian)
- ^ "Paris 2024: Lisa Carrington wins record-extending seventh canoe sprint Olympic gold". BBC Sport. 9 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
External links
- Liudmyla Luzan at the International Canoe Federation
- Liudmyla Luzan at Olympics.com
- Liudmyla Luzan at Olympedia
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- 2018: Ksenia Kurach (RUS)
- 2019: Alena Nazdrova (BLR)
- 2021: María Mailliard (CHI)
- 2022: Liudmyla Luzan (UKR)
- 2023: Katie Vincent (CAN)
- 2024: Liudmyla Luzan (UKR)