Personal information | |
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Full name | Tatyana Vyacheslavovna Bazyuk |
Nationality | Russia |
Born | Lutsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | 18 October 1984
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) |
Sailing career | |
Class | Sailboard |
Club | CSKA Moskva [1] |
Coach | Roman Matsyusovich [1] |
Tatyana Vyacheslavovna Bazyuk (also Tatiana Bazyuk, Russian: Татьяна Вячеславовна Базюк; born 18 October 1984 in Lutsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian-born Russian windsurfer, who specializes in Neil Pryde RS:X class. [1] [2] She represented and competed for Russia in two editions of the Olympic Games (2008 and 2012) and is currently training for the Russian Army Forces under her coach Roman Matsyusovich. [1]
Bazyuk made her official debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she placed twenty-fourth in the newly introduced RS:X class with a net score of 198, trailing Mexico's Demita Vega by an eight-point gap. [3]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Bazyuk competed for her second Russian team in the RS:X class by receiving a berth from the World Championships in Cádiz, Spain. [4] [5] Bazyuk delivered a mediocre effort with two incomplete legs and a twenty-fifth place finish in a fleet of twenty-six windsurfers, accumulating a net score of 208 points. [6] [7]