Yelizaveta Dementyeva

Yelizaveta Dementyeva (née Kislova; 5 March 1928 – 27 July 2022)[1] was a Soviet sprint canoer 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]

Yelizaveta Dementyeva
Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1956 MelbourneK-1 500 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place1958 PragueK-1 500 m
Silver medal – second place1958 PragueK-2 500 m

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