Yaroslav Cherstvy

Yaroslav Cherstvy joined the Soviet national rowing team in 1956 and made his only Olympic appearance later that year in Melbourne as part of the coxed fours squad. There, alongside Andrey Arkhipov, Yury Popov, Valentin Zanin, and Anatoly Fetisov, he was eliminated in the semi-finals. This quintet had better luck at that year’s European Championships, where they took silver behind Finland.

Cherstvy also competed in the eights and was part of the crews that took bronze at the 1958 and 1959 European Championships. His greatest achievement in that event, however, came at the 1962 World Championships, where he captured silver. He won four national titles between these two disciplines from 1956 and 1959. By career he was an engineer, but he also served as a coach.