Liudmyla Luzan
Ukrainian canoeist (born 1997)

Liudmyla Luzan
Luzan at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Personal information
NationalityUkrainian
Born (1997-03-27) 27 March 1997 (age 27)
Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
CountryUkraine
SportCanoe sprint
ClubDynamo Poltava
Coached byMykola Matsapura
Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Representing  Ukraine
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2020 TokyoC-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place2024 ParisC-2 500 m
Bronze medal – third place2020 TokyoC-1 200 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2021 CopenhagenC-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2022 DartmouthC-1 500 m
Gold medal – first place2022 DartmouthC-1 1000 m
Gold medal – first place2024 SamarkandC-1 500 m
Silver medal – second place2021 CopenhagenC-1 500 m
Silver medal – second place2022 DartmouthC-2 500 m
Bronze medal – third place2021 CopenhagenC-4 500 m
European Games
Gold medal – first place2023 Kraków-MałopolskaC-1 500 m
Gold medal – first place2023 Kraków-MałopolskaC-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place2023 Kraków-MałopolskaC-1 200 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2021 PoznańC-1 500 m
Gold medal – first place2021 PoznańC-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2022 MunichC-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place2021 PoznańC-1 200 m
Silver medal – second place2022 MunichC-1 200 m
Silver medal – second place2022 MunichC-1 500 m
Bronze medal – third place2018 BelgradeC-1 500 m
Bronze medal – third place2021 PoznańC-2 200 m
Summer Youth Olympics
Silver medal – second place2014 NanjingC-1

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

YearC-1 200C-2 500
20203rd place, bronze medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2024DNS FB2nd place, silver medalist(s)

World championships

YearC-1 200C-1 500C-1 1000C-2 200C-2 500C-4 500XC-2 500XC-4 500
20153 FB——————
20177——————
20186 FB6—8———
2019—67———
202142nd place, silver medalist(s)—1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)——
202291st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)DNS5—
20237DNS F8—
2024—1st place, gold medalist(s)DSQ H——7

References

  1. ^ Ukrainian Olympic Team at the Nanjing 2014, page 14
  2. ^ Canoer Liudmyla Luzan became Junior European champion
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ Canoeist Lyudmila Luzan, representing Poltava region, won a bronze medal at the Olympics (in Ukrainian)
  5. ^ "Paris 2024: Lisa Carrington wins record-extending seventh canoe sprint Olympic gold". BBC Sport. 9 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
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