Veronika Serhiyivna Marchenko ( uk, Вероніка Сергіївна Марченко; born 3 April 1993) is a Ukrainian competitive

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In mo ...

. She has collected medals in major international competitions, spanning the World Indoor Championships, the

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, and the European Championships.

Career

Marchenko rose to prominence on the global archery scene at the 2014 World Indoor Championships in Nimes, France. There, she and her compatriots

Lidiia Sichenikova Lidiia Yuriyivna Sichenikova ( uk, Лідія Юріївна Січеннікова; 3 February 1993, Chernivtsi) is a Ukrainian archer who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of ...

and

Anastasia Pavlova Anastasiia Vladyslavivna Pavlova ( uk, Анастасі́я Владисла́вівна Па́влова; born February 9, 1995) is a Ukrainian competitive archer. She has collected a career total of at least ten medals in major international c ...

powered past the German women (234–220) on a tactical 14-point advantage to capture the team recurve title (234–220). Marchenko also added the bronze to the trio's career treasury by ousting the neighboring Russia in a high-quality 5–4 shoot-off at the

2015 European Games The 2015 European Games, also known as Baku 2015 or Baku 2015 European Games ( az, Bakı 2015 Avropa Oyunları), were the inaugural edition of the European Games, an international multi-sport event for athletes representing the National Olympic ...

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, Azerbaijan. Marchenko was selected to compete for the Ukrainian squad at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

in Rio de Janeiro, shooting in both individual and team recurve tournaments. Two months before her maiden Games, she commanded the Ukrainian trio in thrashing the Estonian side for one of three women's team spaces at the World Archery Cup meet in

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, Turkey. Marchenko opened the tournament by discharging a total of 630 points, 15 perfect tens, and 6 bull's eyes to seal the thirtieth seed heading to the knockout draw from the classification round, along with the trio's cumulative score of 1,890. Sitting at eighth in the women's team recurve, Marchenko, along with Pavlova and Sichenikova, slipped out of their initial round match to a convincing 2–6 defeat from the ninth-seeded Japanese women. In the women's individual recurve, Marchenko successfully overcame Estonia's Laura Nurmsalu for a comfortable 6–0 victory in the opening round, before she faced a 2–6 conquest in her subsequent match from the defending champion

Ki Bo-bae Ki Bo-bae (Hangul: 기보배; or ; born February 20, 1988) is a South Korean recurve archer and three-time Olympic gold medalist. She was the winner of the women's team and women's individual events at the 2012 Summer Olympics and of the wom ...

of South Korea. She won the gold medal in the women's team recurve event at the 2022 European Indoor Archery Championships held in Laško, Slovenia.

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