Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Ovidiopol, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine
About Tetyana Kocherhina
- Tetyana Ivanivna Kocherhina (née Makarets, Ukrainian: ?????? ???????? ?????????-????????, born 26 March 1956) is a retired Ukrainian handball player.
- Competing for the Soviet Union she won gold medals at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics and three medals at the world championships in 1973–1978.
- During her career Kocherhina played 133 international matches and scored 616 goals, more than anyone in the Soviet team.
- She was the best scorer of the 1975 World Championships.Makarets was the youngest child in a family of nine siblings.
- She took up handball around 1968, and in 1972 was included to the Soviet national team.
- In 1976 she married a fellow handball player Sergey Kochergin and changed her last name from Makarets to Kocherhina/Kochergina.
- In 1981 she retired from the national team due to injuries and gave birth to a daughter, but then played for a few years with the local club in Brovary.
- In April 1988 she started lecturing at the Faculty of Sports of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and later became its dean.
Read more at Wikipedia