Olena Krawazka
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Olena Witalijiwna Krawazka ( Ukrainian Олена Віталіївна Кравацька , in the English transliteration Olena Kravatska ; born June 22, 1992 in Chernivtsi , Ukraine ) is a Ukrainian saber fencer . She is a silver medalist at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with the women's team .
Olena Krawazka started fencing at the age of eight in Odessa , which is traditionally practiced in her family. Later she studied sports education at the South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University of Odessa and competed for the Ukrainian association gymnastics and sports society “Dynamo” of Ukraine (Odessa regional organization).
Sporting successes
At the Fencing World Championships 2014 in Kazan, Krawazka achieved third place (bronze) with the saber women's team (Krawazka, Olha Charlan , Olena Voronina and Olha Shownir ). At the European Fencing Championships 2015 in Montreux at the beginning of June , she won bronze with the women's saber team, in the same month she won the gold medal at the 2015 European Games in Baku and a month later at the 2015 World Fencing Championships in Moscow she won, also with the Team, silver. At the 2016 Summer Olympics , she won the silver medal with the team (Krawazka, Olha Charlan, Olena Voronina and Alina Komashchuk ).
Honors
On October 4th, 2016 she was awarded the Order of Princess Olga 3rd Class by the Ukrainian President for achieving high sports results at the 31st Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Web links
- Profile of Olena Krawazka on the website of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine
- Olympic success for Odessa fencing school: A well-deserved silver for Olena Kravatska on odessareview on November 26, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography Olena Krawazka ; accessed on April 2, 2018
- ↑ Website of the association ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on April 2, 2018 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ The Ukrainian sabers won the "silver" of the world championship on espreso.tv on July 17th, 2015; accessed on April 2, 2018 (Ukrainian)
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- ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 429/2016 of October 4, 2016. Accessed April 1, 2018 (Ukrainian).
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SURNAME | Krawazka, Olena |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krawazka, Olena Vitaliyivna (full name); Kravatska, Olena; Кравацька, Олена Віталіївна (Ukrainian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian saber fencer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1992 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chernivtsi , Ukraine |