Svitlana Kashchenko de Lopéz (born 16 December 1968 in

Yaroslavl Yaroslavl ( rus, Ярослáвль, p=jɪrɐˈsɫavlʲ) is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historic part of the city is a World Heritage Site, and is located at the confluence ...

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) is a Russian-born Nicaraguan sport shooter. Kashchenko has achieved a ninth-place finish in women's air rifle at the

2003 Pan American Games The 2003 Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from August 1 to 17, 2003. The successful bid for the games was made in the mid-1990s, when Dominican Republic had one of the highest growth rates in Latin America. Al ...

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, and later represented

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at the

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, where she became the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony. Throughout her sporting career, Kashchenko has been training for the Nicaraguan Shooting Federation ( es, Federación Nicaragüense de Tiro, Fenitíro) in

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(where she currently resides. Kashchenko qualified for the Nicaraguan squad in two sport shooting events at the

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by receiving a wild card entry from ISSF On the first day of the Games, Kashchenko scored a total of 383 points to share a forty-first place tie with Jamaica's Dawn Kobayashi in the women's 10 m air rifle. Six days later, in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, Kashchenko obtained 189 shots in a prone position, 183 in standing, and 191 in kneeling to deliver a twenty-eighth-place finish in a vast field of 33 shooters with a total score of 563.

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1968 births Living people Nicaraguan female sport shooters Olympic shooters of Nicaragua Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Pan American Games competitors for Nicaragua Sportspeople from Yaroslavl Sportspeople from Managua Russian emigrants to Nicaragua Shooters at the 2003 Pan American Games {{Nicaragua-sportshooting-bio-stub