Marharyta Ryhorauna Makhneva, née Tsishkevich, Belarusian: Маргарыта Рыгораўна Махнева (Цішкевіч); Łacinka: Marharyta Ryhoraŭna Machnieva (Ciškievič); born 13 February 1992) is a Belarusian sprint canoeist. She won two gold medals at the 2015 World Championships (K-2 200 m and K-4 500 m) and the bronze medal in Women's K-4 500 metres at the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[1][2] She won a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's K-4 500 metres.^[3]

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Marharyta Makhneva (Tsishkevich)

Makhneva in 2016
Personal information
Native name	Маргарыта Рыгораўна Махнева (Цішкевіч)
Nationality	Belarusian
Born	(1992-02-13) 13 February 1992 (age 32) Khoiniki, Belarus[1]
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
Country	Belarus
Sport	Sprint kayak
Club	Sport Club of the Professional Unions of the Republic of Belarus
Medal record Women's sprint kayak Representing  Belarus Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo K-4 500 m 2016 Rio de Janeiro K-4 500 m World Championships 2015 Milan K-2 200 m 2015 Milan K-4 500 m 2021 Copenhagen K-4 500 m 2019 Szeged K-4 500 m 2013 Duisburg K-4 500 m 2014 Moscow K-2 200 m 2014 Moscow K-4 500 m 2014 Moscow K-1 4×200 m European Games 2015 Baku K-2 200 m 2019 Minsk K-4 500 m European Championships 2014 Brandenburg K-2 200 m 2015 Račice K-2 200 m 2015 Račice K-4 500 m 2016 Moscow K-4 500 m 2021 Poznań K-4 500 m 2013 Montemor-o-Velho K-4 500 m 2016 Moscow K-2 200 m Universiade 2013 Kazan K-2 500 m 2013 Kazan K-4 200 m 2013 Kazan K-1 200 m

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Tsishkevich represented Belarus at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed only in two individual sprint kayak events. For her first event, the women's K-1 500 metres, she advanced directly into the semi-final rounds, after placing sixth in the heats, with a time of 2:01.216.^[4] She was disqualified from the second semi-final race for breaking the four-metre "centre-lane" rule.^[5] In the first ever women's K-1 200 metres, Tsishkevich repeated her last-place finish in the same heat by approximately twenty-one hundredths of a second (0.21) behind Denmark's Henriette Engel Hansen, clocking at 43.033 seconds.^[6][7]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Makhneva won bronze in the women's K-4 500 metres with Volha Khudzenka, Nadzeya Liapeshka, and Maryna Litvinchuk.^[8]