Inna Volodymyrivna Osypenko-Radomska (, born 20 September 1982) is a Ukrainian-Azerbaijani sprint kayaker. Competing for Ukraine, she won four Olympic medals, including gold at the 2008 Olympics in K-1 500 m. She switched to Azerbaijan in 2014 and won a bronze medal in K-1 200 m at the 2016 Olympics.
In 1997, Osypenko-Radomska started her sports career in the Kyiv sports boarding school, where her first coach was Serhiy Dubinin. However, her involvement in rowing sports began in the late 1980s as her native village had a rowing station on the Dnieper.
Osypenko-Radomska competed for Ukraine until 2014. She won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m at the 2001 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and silver in the same event at the 2003 World Championships. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she took bronze in the K-4 500 metres.
Osypenko-Radomska was the K-1 500 m champion at the 2008 Summer Olympics, after finishing ahead of her Hungarian counterpart Katalin Kovács, who, as she thought, was out of reach for her. In that race, Kovacs finished fourth. Earlier, in 2006, she had her first child and returned to sports in 10 days after giving birth. She was eager to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics. After those Olympics in December of 2008, Inna suffered an injury when she tore the anterior cruciate ligament of her knee and later received a wrong diagnosis that led to muscle atrophy. At the 2010 World Championships, she won gold in K-1 500 m and silver in K-1 200 m. She was awarded two bronze medals â in the K-1 200 m and K-1 500 m â at the 2011 World Championships. The following year, she won silver medals in the K-1 500 m and K-1 200 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Osypenko-Radomska began competing for Azerbaijan in 2014. She won a bronze medal in K-1 200 m at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
On 29 August 2018, she was disqualified for four years after refusing an out-of-competition doping test in May 2018.
Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Osypenko emigrated to Slovakia, where Inna is a coach at DunajÃÂÃÂk, a Bratislava club, helping the local Ukrainian community.
In an interview with the internet news outlet "sport24.ua", Osypenko-Radomska explained that she was born de facto in Kherson, but for the first six months after her birth, they lived in Novoraysk, a home village of her father. She also said that after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian soldiers destroyed the homes of both her parents, who are originally from neighboring villages. Also, the local village store owned by her family was looted by the Russian soldiers. Inna also stated that the reason that she started represented the Azerbaijan Olympic team was that the Ukraine Olympic team refused to include her at that time due to age.
Inna Osypenko-Radomska has two children who are involved in sports. The hyphenated second portion of her last name after her husband, Dmytro Radomskyi, who was her coach.