Marharyta Makhneva

Marharyta Makhneva (Tsishkevich)

Personal information
Native name	Маргарыта Рыгораўна Махнева (Цішкевіч)
Nationality	Belarusian
Born	(1992-02-13) 13 February 1992 Khoiniki, Homel, Belarus
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Sport	Canoeing
Event(s)	Canoe sprint
Medal record Representing  Belarus Olympic Games 2016 Rio K-4 500 m World Championships 2015 Milan K-2 200 m 2015 Milan K-4 500 m 2013 Duisburg K–4 500 m 2014 Moscow K-2 200 m 2014 Moscow K-4 500 m 2014 Moscow K-1 4x200 m European Championships 2014 Brandenburg K-2 200 m 2013 Montemor-o-Velho K-4 500 m Universiade 2013 Kazan K-2 500 m 2013 Kazan K-4 200 m 2013 Kazan K-1 200 m

Marharyta Makhneva or Tsishkevich (Belarusian: Маргарыта Рыгораўна Махнева (Цішкевіч); Łacinka: Marharyta Ryhoraŭna Machnieva (Ciškievič); born 13 February 1992) is a Belarusian sprint canoeist. She won two gold medals at the 2015 World Championships (K-2 200 m and K-4 500 m) and the bronze medal in K-4 500 metres at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Career

Tsishkevich represented Belarus at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed only in two individual sprint kayak events.^[1][2] For her first event, the women's K-1 500 metres, she advanced directly into the semi-final rounds, after placing sixth in the heats, with a time of 2:01.216.^[3] She was disqualified from the second semi-final race for breaking the four-metre "centre-lane" rule.^[4] In the first ever women's K-1 200 metres, Tsishkevich repeated her last-place finish in the same heat by approximately twenty-one hundredths of a second (0.21) behind Denmark's Henriette Engel Hansen, clocking at 43.033 seconds.^[5][6]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Makhneva won bronze in the women's K-4 500 metres with Volha Khudzenka, Nadzeya Liapeshka, and Maryna Litvinchuk.^[7]

References

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile