Tatiana Lysenko

Gymnastics career Lysenko was born in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, and has a Ukrainian-Jewish background. She took up gymnastics at the age of seven, and made her senior debut in 1990, winning the all-around competition at the World Cup. In 1990, Lysenko participated at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle and won a gold medal in team competition

Next year she was selected for the world championships in Indianapolis, where she won the team competition. She qualified to the all-around competition, ahead of her talented teammates Oksana Chusovitina, Rozalia Galiyeva and Natalia Kalinina, but fell from beam and did not win any individual medal.

Lysenko's most notable achievements came at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She represented the Unified Team (ex-Soviets) along with Svetlana Boguinskaya, Tatiana Gutsu, Elena Grudneva, Rozalia Galiyeva and Oksana Chusovitina. They won the team title by a comfortable margin. Lysenko finished 7th all-around, but she won the bronze medal in the vault after performing the most difficult vault in the entire competition, a double-twisting Yurchenko (9.912). Lysenko then won the gold in the beam event (9.975).

Lysenko continued to compete internationally in 1994. She placed 18th in the all-around at the World Championships in Brisbane. In the event finals, she placed fourth on vault. She retired after the World Championships.

Later life After retiring from competitions Lysenko moved to the United States and now lives in Redwood City, California, where she is an attorney. She graduated from the University of San Francisco School of Law and was admitted the California State Bar in 2005. In 2002, she was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame,

Competitive history Year EventTeamAAVTUBBBFX 1989 International Junior Championships 4 Druzhba Junior URS-GDR Dual Meet 1990 Chunichi Cup Tokyo Cup Goodwill Games URS-USA Dual Meet 5 Blume Memorial 9 USSR Championships 4 USSR Cup 8 World Cup 4 4 1991 Blume Memorial USSR Spartakiade URS-ITA Dual Meet 5 World Championships13 8 1992 World Stars 4 7 DTB Cup CIS Championships CIS Cup 4 World Championships 9 7 European Championships 4 6 4 Gander Memorial Olympic Games 7 1993 Birmingham Classic UKR-USA-BLR Tri-Meet French International Soapberry World Challenge Gander Memorial University Games 7 6 DTB Cup 6 4 World Championships 5 1994 World Championships 18 4