Natallia Shykalenka

Biographical information

Roles	Competed in Olympic Games
Sex	Female
Full name	Natallia Ivanauna•Shykalenka
Used name	Natallia•Shykalenka
Original name	Наталля Іванаўна•Шыкаленка
Other names	Nataliya Ivanovna Shikolenko, Наталья Ивановна Шиколенко
Born	1 August 1964 in Andijon, Andijon (UZB)
Measurements	182 cm / 80 kg
Affiliations	FK Dinamo Minsk, Minsk (BLR)
NOC	Belarus Unified Team
Nationality	Belarus

Medals	OG
Gold	0
Silver	1
Bronze	0
Total	1

Biography

Nataliya Shikolenko took up athletics in 1978 and was selected for the Soviet team in 1982. She débuted internationally at the 1987 World Championships, but did not get out of qualifying. Shikolenko won the 1990 Goodwill Games and a silver medal at the 1992 Olympics. After the fall of the Soviet Union, she represented her native Belarus, winning the 1995 World title, and silvers and the 1995-96 European Cups, adding a World Championship bronze in 1993. She also competed at the 1994 European Championships, but did not advance from qualifying, and at the 1996 Olympics, where she placed 12th. Shikolenko won Soviet titles in 1986 and 1990-91 and the 1992 CIS title. Her sister Tatyana Shikolenko was also a world class javelin thrower, who won silvers at the World Championships in 1999 and 2003 and the 1998 European Championships.

Personal Best: JT – 71.40 (1994).

Results

Games	Discipline (Sport) / Event	NOC / Team	Pos	Medal	Nationality	As
1992 Summer Olympics	Athletics	EUN			BLR	Natallia Shykalenka
	Javelin Throw, Women (Olympic)		2	Silver
1996 Summer Olympics	Athletics	BLR				Natallia Shykalenka
	Javelin Throw, Women (Olympic)		12

Olympic family relations

Sister of Tatyana Shikolenko

Special Notes

Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal at the World Athletics Championships (1–0–1 1993 Stuttgart bronze: javelin throw (competed for Belarus); 1995 Göteborg gold: javelin throw (competed for Belarus))