Taisia Chenchik

Taisiya Filipivna Chenchik (Russian: Таисия Филипповна Ченчик; 30 January 1936 – 19 November 2013) was a Soviet high jumper. She competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished fifth and third, respectively. At the European championships she won a gold medal in 1966 and a silver in 1958. Chenchik also won the high jump event at the 1963 Universiade, 1967 European Indoor Championships, USSR-USA dual meets (1958–59, 1962–63, 1965) and Soviet championships (1957–59 and 1962).

Taisia Chenchik

Chenchik at the US-Soviet meet in Philadelphia in 1959
Personal information
Born	30 January 1936 Pryluky, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	19 November 2013 (aged 77) Moscow, Russia
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	54 kg (119 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	High jump
Club	Burevestnik Chelyabinsk (1956–62) Burevestnik Moscow (1963–69)
Achievements and titles
Personal best	1.78 m (1959)
Medal record Representing the Soviet Union Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo High jump European Championships 1958 Stockholm High jump 1966 Budapest High jump European Indoor Games 1967 Prague High jump Universiade 1963 Porto Alegre High jump

Chenchik was born in Ukraine in 1936. In 1941, when Germany invaded Ukraine during World War II, her family was evacuated to Chelyabinsk. There she took up athletics while studying at the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute. In 1959 she graduated in electrical engineering, and then worked as a lecturer at the same institute (1959–62) and at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (1963–91). In retirement she headed Moscow Veteran's Athletics Federation and was a board member of the Moscow Athletics Federation.