Natalia Feodorovna Paderina

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Natalja Fjodorovna Paderina ( Russian: Наталья Фёдоровна Падерина ; born  November 1, 1975 in Sverdlovsk, today Yekaterinburg ) is a Russian sports shooter who is active in the disciplines of 25-meter sports pistol and 10-meter air pistol .

Paderina, who shoots right-handed, began active competitive sports in 1992. Her first international success was in 1995 when she won a gold and a silver medal at the European Junior Championships . Six years later she won the European Championships in Pontevedra in the 10 meter air pistol discipline, in which she took third place at the 2003 European Championships in Gothenburg and a year later was again European Champion in Győr . Further successes at the European Championships were a second place in 2006 in Moscow and winning the bronze medal two years later in Winterthur . At the 2006 World Championships in Zagreb , she achieved her greatest sporting success to date with the title in air pistol shooting.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , she took fifth place in shooting with an air pistol from a distance of ten meters. In the same discipline she won the silver medal behind the Chinese Guo Wenjun four years later at the Summer Olympics in Beijing . During the award ceremony, she hugged third-placed Nino Salukwadze from Georgia as a sign of their mutual desire to end the military conflict between Russia and Georgia over the controversial Caucasus region of South Ossetia, which was taking place at the same time as the games .

Natalja Paderina is married and has one child.

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SURNAME Paderina, Natalia Fyodorovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Падерина, Наталья Фёдоровна (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pistol shooter
DATE OF BIRTH 1st November 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Sverdlovsk