Inna Osypenko-Radomska

Inna Osypenko-Radomska
Osypenko-Radomska in 2012
Personal information
Native name
Інна Володимирівна Осипенко-Радомська
Full nameInna Volodymyrivna Osypenko-Radomska
Born (1982-08-20) 20 August 1982
Novoraysk, Beryslav Raion, Kherson Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Representing  Azerbaijan
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro K-1 200 m
Representing  Ukraine
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing K-1 500 m
2012 London K-1 500 m
2012 London K-1 200 m
2004 Athens K-4 500 m
World Championships
2010 Poznań K-1 500 m
2003 Gainesville K-4 1000 m
2010 Poznań K-1 200 m
2001 Poznań K-4 1000 m
2011 Szeged K-1 200 m
2011 Szeged K-1 500 m
European Championships
2001 Milan K-4 1000 m
2004 Poznań K-4 500 m
2008 Milan K-1 200 m
2011 Belgrade K-1 500 m
2007 Pontevedra K-1 200 m

Inna Volodymyrivna Osypenko-Radomska (Ukrainian: Інна Володимирівна Осипенко-Радомська, born 20 September 1982) is a Ukrainian-Azerbaijani sprint kayaker. Competing for Ukraine, she won four Olympic medals, including gold at the 2008 Olympics in K-1 500 m. She switched to Azerbaijan in 2014 and won a bronze medal in K-1 200 m at the 2016 Olympics.

Career

In 1997, Osypenko-Radomska started her sports career in the Kyiv sports boarding school, where her first coach was Serhiy Dubinin.[1] However, her involvement in rowing sports began in the late 1980s as her native village had a rowing station on the Dnieper.[1]

Osypenko-Radomska competed for Ukraine until 2014. She won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m at the 2001 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and silver in the same event at the 2003 World Championships. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she took bronze in the K-4 500 metres.

Osypenko-Radomska was the K-1 500 m champion at the 2008 Summer Olympics, after finishing ahead of her Hungarian counterpart Katalin Kovács, who, as she thought, was out of reach for her.[1] In that race, Kovacs finished fourth. Earlier, in 2006, she had her first child and returned to sports in 10 days after giving birth.[1] She was eager to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics.[1] After those Olympics in December of 2008, Inna suffered an injury when she tore the anterior cruciate ligament of her knee and later received a wrong diagnosis that led to muscle atrophy.[1] At the 2010 World Championships, she won gold in K-1 500 m and silver in K-1 200 m. She was awarded two bronze medals – in the K-1 200 m and K-1 500 m – at the 2011 World Championships. The following year, she won silver medals in the K-1 500 m and K-1 200 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[2]

Osypenko-Radomska began competing for Azerbaijan in 2014. She won a bronze medal in K-1 200 m at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[3]

On 29 August 2018, she was disqualified for four years after refusing an out-of-competition doping test in May 2018.[4]

Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Osypenko emigrated to Slovakia, where Inna is a coach at Dunajčík, a Bratislava club, helping the local Ukrainian community.

In an interview with the internet news outlet "sport24.ua", Osypenko-Radomska explained that she was born de facto in Kherson, but for the first six months after her birth, they lived in Novoraysk, a home village of her father.[5][1] She also said that after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian soldiers destroyed the homes of both her parents, who are originally from neighboring villages.[5][1] Also, the local village store owned by her family was looted by the Russian soldiers.[5][1] Inna also stated that the reason that she started represented the Azerbaijan Olympic team was that the Ukraine Olympic team refused to include her at that time due to age.[1]

Inna Osypenko-Radomska has two children who are involved in sports.[1] The hyphenated second portion of her last name after her husband, Dmytro Radomskyi, who was her coach.[1]

State decorations

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Kuzmyak, Lyubomyr (4 April 2023). ""У мінспорту сказали: "Клади весло і вали звідси": Осипенко-Радомська – про золоті 0,004 секунди і спалене росією село" [In the MinSport, they said: "Lay down your paddle, and get out of here". Osypenko-Radomska about her golden 0.004 seconds and the her burned down village by Russia]. sport24.ua (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
  2. ^ "Inna Osypenko-Radomska". london2012.com. Archived from the original on May 1, 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Inna Osipenko-Rodomska". rio2016.com. Archived from the original on August 22, 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  4. ^ "Five-time Olympic kayak medalist banned four years". olympics.nbcsports.com. 29 August 2018.
  5. ^ a b c Polishchuk, Maryna (8 April 2023). "«Більше немає хати, де я виросла». Олімпійська чемпіонка Інна Осипенко-Радомська – про рідне село на Бериславщині" [There is no more the house where I grew up. The Olympic champion Inna Osypenko-Radomska about her native village of the Beryslav region]. grivna.ua (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 10 February 2026. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
  6. ^ Указ Президента України № 804/2008 від 4 вересня 2008 року «Про відзначення державними нагородами України спортсменів, тренерів та фахівців національної збірної команди України на XXIX літніх Олімпійських іграх»
  7. ^ Указ Президента України № 1104/2004 від 18 вересня 2004 року «Про відзначення державними нагородами України спортсменів національної збірної команди України на XXVIII літніх Олімпійських іграх»
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