Lina Serhiyivna Herasymenko ( uk, Ліна Сергіївна Герасименко;
born 29 September 1974) is a Ukrainian
archer
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. She competed at the
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
in
Atlanta
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, where she placed 23rd in the
individual contest, and fifth in the
team contest.
At those Games she also set the
Olympic record
Olympic records are the best performances in a specific event in that event's history in either the Summer Olympic Games or the Winter Olympic Games, including:
* Archery (list)
* Alpine skiing (records recognized only by FIS)
* Athletics (list)
...
in 72 arrow ranking round (673) which lasted until July 23, 2021, when it was beaten in the
qualification round by the South Korean archer
An San (680).
References
Ukrainian female archers
1974 births
Living people
Archers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic archers for Ukraine
Sportspeople from Chernivtsi
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