Name Yelizaveta Dementyeva | Role Olympic athlete | |
Olympic medals Canoeing at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's K-1 500 metres |
Yelizaveta Dementyeva (born 5 March 1928 as Yelizaveta Kislova) is 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.
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