Larissa Kosorukova

Larissa Kosorukova was born in 1973 in Naberezhnye Chelny

Larissa Kosorukova was born on May 30, 1973, in Naberezhnye Chelny. She began canoeing at a youth sports school under coach Maria Stepanova. In 1988 she entered the Olympic reserve school in Moscow.

In 1991 she won two titles at the junior world championships. She joined the Russian national team and won Russian titles in 1993, 1994 and 1995. From 1994 she trained under coach Valery Pesyakhovich.

Competing for Russia, she won world bronze medals in 1995 and 1998 and placed seventh and eighth at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. She moved to Israel after the 1998 world championships in Szeged and trained with Hapoel.

For Israel she reached the semifinals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and won a world bronze in 2002 with Adi Gefen. At the 2004 Athens Olympics she placed sixth in the K-1 500 m. From July 2014 she has coached kayaking in Moscow.