Olena Vitaliyivna Kravatska ( uk, Олена Віталіївна Краватська; born 22 June 1992) is a Ukrainian sabre fencer. Competing in team events, she is the 2015 World silver medalist and 2016 Olympic silver medalist.

Career

Kravatska won a silver medal in the 2010 Junior European Championships and a team gold medal the same year in the Junior World Championships. In the 2013–14 season she took part in her first major competition amongst seniors. At the

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in Strasbourg, she ranked 2nd after the pools and received a bye. She was then defeated in the table of 32 by Germany's Sibylle Klemm and finished 17th. At the

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in Kazan, she was defeated in the table of 64 by Olympic silver medal

Sofiya Velikaya Sofiya Aleksandrovna Velikaya ( rus, Софья Александровна Великая, , ˈsofʲjə vʲɪˈlʲikəjə; born 8 June 1985) is a Russian sabre fencer. Velikaya is a former European champion (four-time individual, six-time t ...

. In the team event, she was selected as reserve into the Ukrainian team. They defeated first Japan, then South Korea before falling 44–45 to the United States. Ukraine overcame Italy in the small final to earn a bronze medal. In the 2014–15 season Kravatska climbed her first

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with a bronze medal in the Orléans World Cup.

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