Valentyna Mykolaivna Zakoretska (Ukrainian: Валентина Миколаївна Закорецька; 30 April 1947 — 9 July 2010) was a Soviet and Ukrainian athlete, parachutist, Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine, two-time absolute world champion, and holder of 50 world records.
Later, she was a trainer-instructor in parachute training at Yenakiyiv State Air Sports Club.
[2] Zakoretska took part in public movements and supported protest actions of the youth literary group STAN.
Her name is listed in the Guinness Book of Records 1976, 1987, 1998 as a female parachutist with the most parachute jumps in the world.
[4] Valentyna Zakoretska died on 9 July 2010 from acute heart failure before the competition at the Dnipropetrovsk airfield, where she was supposed to participate as a judge.