Marharyta Makhneva


Marharyta Makhneva ; Łacinka: Marharyta Ryhoraŭna Machnieva is a Belarusian sprint canoeist. She won two gold medals at the 2015 World Championships and the bronze medal in K-4 500 metres at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Career

Tsishkevich represented Belarus at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed only in two individual sprint kayak events. For her first event, the women's K-1 500 metres, she advanced directly into the semi-final rounds, after placing sixth in the heats, with a time of 2:01.216. She was disqualified from the second semi-final race for breaking the four-metre "centre-lane" rule. In the first ever women's K-1 200 metres, Tsishkevich repeated her last-place finish in the same heat by approximately twenty-one hundredths of a second behind Denmark's Henriette Engel Hansen, clocking at 43.033 seconds.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Makhneva won bronze in the women's K-4 500 metres with Volha Khudzenka, Nadzeya Liapeshka, and Maryna Litvinchuk.