Georgy Gushchenko

Gregory Gushchenko took up rowing while studying shipbuilding in the late 1940s and made his major international début for the Soviet Union at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. There he was eliminated in the semi-finals repêchage of the coxed fours, alongside Kirill Putyrsky, Yevgeny Tretnikov, Boris Fyodorov, and Boris Brechko. This quintet, with non-Olympian Georgy Bryulgart replacing Tretnikov, had better luck at the European Championships the following year, where they came in second behind Czechoslovakia.

Gushchenko returned to the Olympics in 1956, this time as a member of the eights, and was eliminated in the semi-finals. He continued to compete in this discipline at the Worlds, taking silver in 1957 and bronze in 1958 and 1959. Domestically, he was a five-time national champion, and he later worked in the field of marine engineering.