Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko

Tatiana Dmitrievna Petrenko - Samusenko (Russian Татьяна Дмитриевна Петренко - Самусенко; born November 2, 1938 in Ostroshitsy, Belarus, † January 24, 2000 in Minsk) was a Soviet foil fencer. She won three gold medals at Olympics and five World Championships.

Tatyana Petrenko - Samusenko participated in four Summer Olympics, each part with the foil team. She made her debut at the Summer Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 and immediately won the gold medal. Four years later, at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, this success could not quite repeated and silver are recovered. In the two following games in 1968 in Mexico City and 1972 Munich Tatiana Petrenko - Samusenko could again win the gold medal in the foil team.

The single biggest success of her career was winning the title at the World Fencing Championships 1966 With the team, she won four more world titles. , 1963 in Gdansk, 1965 in Paris, 1966 in Moscow and 1970 in Ankara.