Olympic champion Lyudmila Shevtsova has died

This has been reported by the Ukrainian Athletics Federation.

Lyudmila Shevtsova, who represented Dnipro, made history as an Olympic champion in the 800 metres at the 1960 Games in Rome. At the time, she competed under the surname Gurevich, and after her marriage she was also known as Lysenko.

At the Rome Olympics, she not only won a gold medal but also set a world record with a time of 2:04.3.

For 11 years – from 1953 to 1964 – the athlete competed for the USSR national team.

After retiring from competitive sport, Lyudmila Shevtsova worked as a coach for many years. A youth athletics tournament was also held in Dnipro for the prizes of Olympic champion Lyudmila Gurevich-Lysenko.

In 2008, Lyudmila Shevtsova-Gurevich, together with the 1960 Rome Olympic champion Viktor Tsybulenko, won the “Sports Glory of Ukraine” award at the Ukrainian NOC’s “Sports Heroes of the Year 2008” ceremony.

In the final years of her life, Lyudmila Shevtsova lived in Israel. The report

also notes that at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Ukrainian athletes won 16 gold medals. These included four golds for Boris Shakhlin, three for Larisa Latynina, two each for Polina Astakhova and Margarita Nikolaeva, and one each for Lyudmila Shevtsova-Gurevich, Vera Krepkina, Vladimir Golubnichy, Viktor Tsybulenko and Ivan Bogdan.

As reported by ThePublic, Romanian football manager Mircea Lucescu, who managed Donetsk’s Shakhtar and Kyiv’s Dynamo, has died at the age of 80. He was hospitalised at the end of March following a heart attack, according to the website of Dynamo Kyiv football club.

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