Iryna Lishchynska

Date of Birth: 15.01.1976

Iryna Anatoliivna Lishchynska - Ukrainian athlete (middle-distance running), silver medalist at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Honored Master of Sports. Multiple-time Ukrainian champion, silver medalist at the 2007 World Championships.

Place of Birth. Education. Born in Makeevka, Donetsk Oblast. Graduate of the Donetsk State Academy of Management.

General Information. Height - 165 cm, Weight - 52 kg.

Representative of the Sports Club of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Donetsk.

Coach - Igor Lishchinski. First coach - Hennadii Shalamanov.

Awards and Achievements. Honored Master of Sports.

Multiple-time Ukrainian champion.

World Championships 2003 - 5th place.

European Cup 2004 - 1st place.

World Championships 2006 - 5th place.

World Championships 2007 - 3rd place.

Silver medalist of the XXIX Olympic Games in Beijing 2008. Iryna Lishchynska achieved a time of 4 minutes 01.63 seconds in a 1500-meter race. The bronze medal was won by Ukrainian Nataliia Tobias (4 minutes 01.78 seconds). The gold medal in this discipline was secured by Nancy Langat from Kenya (4 minutes 0.23 seconds).

Professional career from 1997 to 2009.

Since 2011, she led the agency for the preparation and conduct of the Athletics World Championship 2013 in Donetsk, was president of the athletics club 'Queen of Sports' and actively engages in popularizing athletics in Ukraine.

Since 2014 - co-founder, general manager, and coach of the RUN BASE KYIV running club, and sports director at Run Ukraine, the organizer of mass sports events in Ukraine such as the Kyiv International Marathon and half marathon.

Family. Married, husband Lishchynskyi Ihor Ivanovych (honored coach of Ukraine).Raising two daughters.

03.01.2024.