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Olha Maslivets ( uk, Ольга Вікторівна Маслівець), Olga Maslivets (russian: Ольга Викторовна Масливец), (born 23 June 1978 in
Ternopil
Ternópil ( uk, Тернопіль, Ternopil' ; pl, Tarnopol; yi, טאַרנאָפּל, Tarnopl, or ; he, טארנופול (טַרְנוֹפּוֹל), Tarnopol; german: Tarnopol) is a city in the west of Ukraine. Administratively, Ternopi ...
) is a Ukrainian-born Russian
windsurfer
Windsurfing is a wind propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. It is also referred to as "sailboarding" and "boardsailing", and emerged in the late 1960s from the aerospace and surf culture of California. Windsurfing ga ...
who has competed at four Olympic Games (
2000
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,
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
,
2008
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and
2012
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). Her best result came in 2012, when she finished 4th in the women's RS-X event.
References
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1978 births
Living people
Female windsurfers
Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design
Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design
Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X
Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – RS:X
Olympic sailors of Ukraine
Ukrainian female sailors (sport)
Ukrainian windsurfers
Sportspeople from Ternopil
Naturalised citizens of Russia
Olympic sailors of Russia
Russian female sailors (sport)
Ukrainian emigrants to Russia
Universiade medalists in sailing
Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine
Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade
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