Olesya Yuryevna Velichko (russian: Олеся Юрьевна Величко; born May 20, 1981 in
Taraz
Taraz ( kz, Тараз, تاراز, translit=Taraz ; known to Europeans as Talas) is a city and the administrative center of Jambyl Region in Kazakhstan, located on the Talas (river), Talas (Taraz) River in the south of the country near the borde ...
,
Kazakhstan
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) is a
modern pentathlete
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from Russia.
She is a multiple-time medalist at the World Championships, and a double champion at the 2001 Junior World Championships.
Velichko competed at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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in
Athens, Greece
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, where she finished seventeenth in the women's event, with a score of 5,016 points.
References
External links
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archived page from Pentathlon.org
1981 births
Living people
Russian female modern pentathletes
Olympic modern pentathletes of Russia
Modern pentathletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics
World Modern Pentathlon Championships medalists
21st-century Russian women
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