Olena Buryak ( uk, Олена Буряк; born 8 February 1988 in

Mykolaiv Mykolaiv ( uk, Миколаїв, ) is a city and municipality in Southern Ukraine, the administrative center of the Mykolaiv Oblast. Mykolaiv city, which provides Ukraine with access to the Black Sea, is the location of the most downriver brid ...

) is a Ukrainian rower. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's

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with Hanna Kravchenko. She was part of the Ukrainian women's quadruple sculls team, with

Daryna Verkhohliad Daryna Verkhohliad ( uk, Дарина Верхогляд; born 22 February 1992 in Velyka Oleksandrivka, Kherson Oblast Kherson Oblast ( uk, Херсо́нська о́бласть, translit=Khersónsʹka óblastʹ, ), also known as Kherson ...

, Anastasiia Kozhenkova and Yevheniya Nimchenko, at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The team finished 4th. She was also part of the Ukrainian quadruple sculls team that finished second at the 2010 World Rowing Championships. The team consisted of Buryak, Kozhenkova, Kateryna Tarasenko and Yana Dementieva. She rows for Spartak Kiev.

Indoor rowing career

Buryak is a multiple world record holder in women's

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, and was the fastest woman ever over the 2000 metres distance until Brooke Mooney surpassed her in 2021. She won the CRASH-B Sprints in 2013 and 2017.

References

* 1988 births Living people Ukrainian female rowers Sportspeople from Mykolaiv Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers for Ukraine World Rowing Championships medalists for Ukraine World Games gold medalists Competitors at the 2017 World Games Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine Universiade medalists in rowing European Rowing Championships medalists Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade 21st-century Ukrainian women {{Ukraine-rowing-bio-stub