Elena Ivashchenko
Elena Ivashchenko was a Russian judoka.
Biography
Ivashchenko was born in Omsk, Russia on 28 December 1984.She won a silver medal and two bronze medals at the World Judo Championships. She also had four gold medals and one bronze medal at the European Judo Championships. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the +78 kg event and lost in the repechage to Iryna Kindzerska.
She committed suicide in Tyumen, Russia, at the age of 28 on 15 June 2013.