Liudmyla Luzan

Liudmyla Luzan
Luzan at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Personal information
NationalityUkrainian
Born (1997-03-27) 27 March 1997
Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
CountryUkraine
SportCanoe sprint
ClubDynamo Poltava
Coached byMykola Matsapura
Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Representing  Ukraine
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2020 TokyoC-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place2024 ParisC-2 500 m
Bronze medal – third place2020 TokyoC-1 200 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2021 CopenhagenC-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2022 DartmouthC-1 500 m
Gold medal – first place2022 DartmouthC-1 1000 m
Gold medal – first place2024 SamarkandC-1 500 m
Gold medal – first place2025 MilanC-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place2025 MilanC-1 500 m
Gold medal – first place2025 MilanC-2 200 m
Gold medal – first place2025 MilanC-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place2021 CopenhagenC-1 500 m
Silver medal – second place2022 DartmouthC-2 500 m
Bronze medal – third place2021 CopenhagenC-4 500 m
European Games
Gold medal – first place2023 Kraków-MałopolskaC-1 500 m
Gold medal – first place2023 Kraków-MałopolskaC-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place2023 Kraków-MałopolskaC-1 200 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2021 PoznańC-1 500 m
Gold medal – first place2021 PoznańC-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2022 MunichC-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2025 RaciceC-1 500 m
Gold medal – first place2026 Montemor-o-VelhoC-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place2026 Montemor-o-VelhoC-2 200 m
Gold medal – first place2026 Montemor-o-VelhoC-1 500 m
Gold medal – first place2026 Montemor-o-VelhoC-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place2021 PoznańC-1 200 m
Silver medal – second place2022 MunichC-1 200 m
Silver medal – second place2022 MunichC-1 500 m
Silver medal – second place2025 RaciceC-1 200 m
Silver medal – second place2025 RaciceC-2 200 m
Silver medal – second place2025 RaciceC-2 500 m
Bronze medal – third place2018 BelgradeC-1 500 m
Bronze medal – third place2021 PoznańC-2 200 m
Summer Youth Olympics
Silver medal – second place2014 NanjingC-1

Liudmyla Volodymyrivna Luzan (Ukrainian: Людмила Володимирівна Лузан; born 27 March 1997) is a Ukrainian sprint canoeist.[1] She is a two-time silver and a bronze Olympic medalist, eight-time World champion and eight-time European champion.[2]

Career

Luzan competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics where she won a silver medal in the C-1 event. She won her first international senior medal when she placed third at the 2018 European Championships in the C-1 500 metres. Luzan won gold medals at the 2021 European Championships in the C-1 500 metres and the C-2 500 metres with Anastasiia Chetverikova, in addition to a silver medal in the C-1 200 metres and a bronze medal in the C-2 200 metres with Chetverikova. She won the silver medal in the C-2 500 metres event with Chetverikova and the bronze medal in the C-1 200 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3][4] At the 2021 World Championships, Luzan won the gold medal in the C-2 500 metres event with Chetverikova, the silver medal in the C-1 500 metres event and the bronze medal in the C-4 500 metres with Chetverikova, Olena Tsyhankova and Yuliia Kolesnyk.

At the 2022 World Championships, Luzan won gold medals in the C-1 500 metres and the C-1 1000 metres, and a silver medal in the C-2 500 metres with Chetverikova. She won the gold medal in the C-2 500 metres with Chetverikova, and silver medals in the C-1 200 metres and the C-1 500 metres at the 2022 European Championships. At the 2023 European Games, Luzan won gold medals in the C-1 500 metres event and the C-2 500 metres event with Valeriia Tereta, and a silver medal in the C-1 200 metres event. She won the silver medal in the C-2 500 metres event at the 2024 Summer Olympics with Anastasiia Rybachok.[5]

Major results

Olympic Games

Year C-1 200 C-2 500
20203rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2024DNS FB2nd place, silver medalist(s)

World championships

Year C-1 200 C-1 500 C-1 1000 C-2 200 C-2 500 C-4 500 XC-2 500 XC-4 500
2015 3 FB N/a N/a N/a N/a N/a N/a
2017 7 N/a N/a N/a N/a N/a N/a
2018 6 FB 6 N/a 8 N/a N/a N/a
2019 N/a 6 7 N/a N/a N/a
2021 4 2nd place, silver medalist(s) N/a 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) N/a N/a
2022 9 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) DNS 5 N/a
2023 7 DNS F 8 N/a
2024 N/a 1st place, gold medalist(s) DSQ H N/a N/a 7
2025 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) N/a 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) N/a N/a

References

  1. ↑ Ukrainian Olympic Team at the Nanjing 2014, page 14
  2. ↑ Canoer Liudmyla Luzan became Junior European champion
  3. ↑ "Canoe Sprint LUZAN Liudmyla". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  4. ↑ Canoeist Lyudmila Luzan, representing Poltava region, won a bronze medal at the Olympics (in Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ "Paris 2024: Lisa Carrington wins record-extending seventh canoe sprint Olympic gold". BBC Sport. 9 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
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