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Marharyta Makhneva

Marharyta Makhneva (Tsishkevich)
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Makhneva (bottom left) on a 2016 stamp of Belarus
Personal information
Native name Маргарыта Рыгораўна Махнева (Цішкевіч)
Nationality Belarusian
Born (1992-02-13) 13 February 1992 (age 25)
Khoiniki, Homel, Belarus
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Sport Canoeing
Event(s) Canoe sprint

Marharyta Makhneva (née 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.

Tsishkevich represented Belarus at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed only in two individual sprint kayak events. 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. She was disqualified from the second semi-final race for breaking the four-metre "centre-lane" rule. 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.

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.


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