Elena Sergeevna Vaicehovskaya was born in March 1, 1958 in Moscow. She was a Soviet athlete and Russian journalist who competed in platform diving. Vaicehovskaya is the only athlete in history to win gold in platform diving at the Olympics for both the USSR and Russia. She was coached by Russian diving coach Ivanovna and is a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the first recipient of the Nikolay Ozerov Medal in 2005.