Larissa Kosorukova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Larissa Kosorukova

Russian canoeist

Date of Birth: 30-May-1973

Place of Birth: Naberezhnye Chelny, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia

Profession: canoeist

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Larissa Kosorukova-Pesyakhovich (Russian: ?????? ??????????-?????????) (born May 30, 1973) is a Russian-born Israeli sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s (decade).
She won three bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in 1995 (K-2 200 m for Russia under her maiden name of Kosorukova), 1998 (K-4 200 m for Russia under her married name of Pesyakhovich), and 2002 (K-2 1000 m for Israel under her married name). Kosorukova-Pesyakhovich also competed in three Summer Olympics.
Competing for Russia at the 1996 Games in Atlanta, she finished seventh in the K-4 500 m and eighth in the K-2 500 m.
Four years later in Sydney, Kosorukova-Pesyakhovich competed for Israel in the K-2 500 m event, but was eliminated in the semifinals.
She closed out her Olympic career at the 2004 Games in Athens with her best overall finish of sixth in the K-1 500 m event. Kosorukova-Pesyakhovich moved to Israel following the 1998 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged.