About Irina Kostyuchenkova
Lived 1961 – 2023 (aged 61). Irina Kostyuchenkova was a Russian and Ukrainian athletics competitor and javelin thrower.
Irina Kostyuchenkova (, ; 11 May 1961 – 31 March 2023) was a javelin thrower who represented the Soviet Union, and later Ukraine.
Kostyuchenkova was born in Chelyabinsk. She is best known for winning the gold medal in the women's javelin throw event at the 1987 Summer Universiade in Zagreb, FR Yugoslavia. She later became a coach.
Kostyuchenkova died on 31 March 2023, at the age of 61. She and her mother were strangled by her 33-year-old son in Alushta.
Her son suffered from severe psychiatric illness.
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Who was Irina Kostyuchenkova?
athletics competitor
When was Irina Kostyuchenkova born?
Irina Kostyuchenkova was born on 11 May 1961 in Chelyabinsk.
When did Irina Kostyuchenkova die?
Irina Kostyuchenkova died on 31 March 2023 in Alushta.
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Irina Kostyuchenkova was an athletics competitor and javelin thrower.
What nationality was Irina Kostyuchenkova?
Irina Kostyuchenkova was Russian and Ukrainian.
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