Zinaida Turchyna

Ukrainian handball player

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Zinaida Turchyna

Turchyna (right) at the 1980 Olympics

Personal information

Born

17 May 1946 (1946-05-17) (age 78)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

Height

180 cm (5 ft 11 in)

Weight

73 kg (161 lb)

Sport

Handball

Club

HC Spartak Kyiv

Coached by

Igor Turchin

Medal record

Representing the Soviet Union

Olympic Games
	1976 Montreal	Team
	1980 Moscow	Team
	1988 Seoul	Team
World Championship
	1982 Hungary	Team
	1986 Netherlands	Team
	1975 Soviet Union	Team
	1978 Czechoslovakia	Team
	1973 Yugoslavia	Team

Zinaida Mykhaylivna Turchyna (Ukrainian: Зінаїда Михайлiвна Турчина, née Stolitenko on 17 May 1946) is a retired Ukrainian handball player. Coached by her husband Igor Turchin she competed for the Soviet Union in all major international tournaments in 1973–1988, except for the boycotted 1984 Summer Olympics, and won three Olympic^[1] and five world championship medals.^[2]^[3] In 2000 a panel from the International Handball Federation and sports journalists named her the best female handball player of the 20th century.^[4]^[5]

Stolitenko was brought to handball in 1959 by Igor Turchin, a team-sports coach 10 years her senior, who later headed HC Spartak Kyiv in 1962–1993 and the Soviet handball team in 1973–1993. She married him in 1965 and changed her last name from Stolitenko to Turchyna. They had a daughter Natalia (born 1971) and a son, Mikhail (born 1983). Natalia played handball alongside her mother for Spartak Kyiv, while Mikhail went into basketball.^[5] After the death of her husband in 1993 Turchyna took over his coaching positions at Spartak Kyiv and the Ukrainian national team. She retired from coaching in 1996, but still works as the manager of Spartak Kyiv.^[6]^[7] Since 2002 she lives with her boyfriend Vladimir.^[8]

References

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^ Zinaïda Turchyna. sports-reference.com
^ Women Handball World Championship 1973 in Yugoslavia 08-15.12 Champion Yugoslavia,
Women Handball World Championship 1975 Soviet Union 03-13.12 Winner East Germany,
Women Handball World Championship 1978 in Czechoslovakia 30.11–10.12 Champion East Germany. todor66.com
^ A – Indoor/en salle/Halle – 1982 – HUN,
A – Indoor/en salle/Halle – 1986 – NED. International Handball Federation
^ Турчина — лучшая гандболистка века. Kommersant (20 June 2000)
^ ^a ^b Я ПРОЖИЛА ЗА ТУРЧИНЫМ, КАК ЗА ЗОЛОТОЙ СТЕНОЙ. segodnya.ua (21 December 2000)
^ Администрация. spartak.kiev.ua
^ Зинаида Турчина: О нас говорили, будто мы как собаки, которых с цепи спустили. fraza.ua (28 May 2009)
^ Девочки не хотели, чтобы я выходила замуж. gazeta.ua (25 February 2007)