Olena Dmytrivna Kostevych ( ua, Олена Дмитрівна Костевич, born 14 April 1985) is a Ukrainian pistol shooter. She is the 2004 Olympic champion in the 10 metre air pistol event, 2002 World champion in 10 m air pistol event and 2018 World champion in 25 m pistol event. She is also multiple European Championships champion and medalist as well as

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champion.

Personal life

Kostevych was born in

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. She moved to her mother's city

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and she was a student at the Chernihiv State Technological University in

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Career

Kostevych competes for Ukraine. At the age of 17, she won the 10 m air pistol event at the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships. She followed this with a victory in the 2003 ISSF World Cup Final, and an Olympic gold medal at the

2004 Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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. At the

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, she placed 26th in the 25 metre pistol event and 31st in 10 metre air pistol. Her Ukrainian record of 394 is one point higher than the world record. At the

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, Kostevych won bronze medals in the 10 metre

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and 25 meter sport pistol competitions. She won no medals at the

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in Rio de Janeiro. At the

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(Tokyo, 25 July 2021), she placed 4th in the 10 metre

competition and on July 27, 2021 Olena Kostevych and Oleg Omelchuk won a bronze medal in the ten-metre

Olympic results

File:Kostevych Munich 2006 event.jpg, Olena Kostevych
World Cup'06 in

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, Women's Air Pistol event

Records

References

External links

* * Olympic shooters of Ukraine Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Ukraine 1985 births Living people Sportspeople from Khabarovsk Ukrainian female sport shooters ISSF pistol shooters Olympic medalists in shooting Olympic bronze medalists for Ukraine Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2015 European Games Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in shooting Universiade gold medalists for Ukraine Universiade silver medalists for Ukraine Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine Shooters at the 2019 European Games European Games medalists in shooting European Games bronze medalists for Ukraine Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade Shooters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Chernihiv Polytechnic National University alumni 20th-century Ukrainian women 21st-century Ukrainian women {{Ukraine-sportshooting-bio-stub