Country: | Russia |
Weight Class: | +78 kg |
Worlds Rank: | 2 |
Worlds Year: | 2008 |
Worlds Weight: | Women's Open |
Regionals Type: | EU |
Regionals Rank: | 1 |
Regionals Year: | 2007 |
Regionals Weight: | Women's Open |
Regionals Year2: | 2009 |
Regionals Weight2: | Women's +78 kg |
Regionals Year3: | 2011 |
Regionals Weight3: | Women's +78 kg |
Regionals Year4: | 2012 |
Regionals Weight4: | Women's +78 kg |
Olympics Rank: | 7 |
Olympics Year: | 2012 |
Olympics Weight: | Women's +78 kg |
Updated: | 17 July 2023 |
Elena Ivashchenko (; Russian: Елена Иващенко, Елена Шлейзе; 28 December 1984 – 15 June 2013) was a Russian judoka.[1]
Ivashchenko was born in Omsk, Russia on 28 December 1984.[2] [3]
She won a silver medal (2008) and two bronze medals (2007, 2011) at the World Judo Championships (and World Open Judo Championships). She also had four gold medals (2007, 2009, 2011, 2012)[4] and one bronze medal (2006) at the European Judo Championships.[5] She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the +78 kg event and lost in the repechage to Iryna Kindzerska.[6]
She committed suicide in Tyumen, Russia, at the age of 28 on 15 June 2013.[7]