Olena Kostevych

Olena Kostevych
Olympic medalist
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Olena Kostevych
Medal record
Women's shooting
Olympic Games
Gold 2004 Athens 10 m air pistol
Universiade
Bronze 2011 Shenzhen 10 m air pistol
Bronze 2011 Shenzhen 10 m air pistol team

Olena Kostevych (Ukrainian: Олена Костевич, born 14 April 1985) is a pistol shooter from Chernigov, Ukraine. She was born in Khabarovsk, Soviet Union.

At the age of 17, Kostevych won the 10 m Air Pistol event at the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships. She followed this with a victory in the 2003 ISSF World Cup Final, and an Olympic gold medal at the 2004 Olympics. She is currently a student. At the 2008 Olympics, she was placed in 26th place 25 metre pistol and 31st in 10 metre air pistol. Her Ukrainian record of 394 is one point higher than the world record.

Olympic results

Event 2004 2008
10 metre air pistol 1 Gold
384+99.3		 31st
378
25 metre pistol 27th
569		 26th
575

  • Olena Kostevych
    World Cup'06 in Munich, Women's Air Pistol event

External links

v · d · eOlympic Champions in Women's 10 metre air pistol
1988: Jasna Šekarić • 1992: Marina Logvinenko • 1996: Olga Klochneva • 2000: Tao Luna • 2004: Olena Kostevych • 2008: Guo Wenjun


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