Olga Yevgenevna Velichko

Olga Welitschko medal table
fencing
Soviet Union United Team Russia
World championships
bronze	Barcelona 1985	Foil team
gold	Sofia 1986	Foil team
gold	Denver 1989	foil
silver	Denver 1989	Foil team
bronze	Lyon 1990	foil
silver	Lyon 1990	Foil team
silver	Budapest 1991	Foil team
European championships
bronze	Plovdiv 1998	foil
gold	Plovdiv 1998	Foil team

Olga Evgenjewna Velitschko ( Russian Ольга Евгеньевна Величко ; born November 20, 1965 in Vladikavkaz , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian foil fencer .

successes

Olga Welitschko first won bronze with the team at the 1985 World Championships in Barcelona , before becoming world champion with them in Sofia the following year . In 1989 she won the singles title in Denver , and she was second in the team competition. In 1990 in Lyon she secured bronze in the individual and again silver with the team. In 1991 she was runner-up with the team in Budapest for the third time in a row. In 1998 she managed to win the title at the European Championships in Plovdiv with the team . In the singles she won bronze. She took part in the Olympic Games twice: at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​she played for the United Team , with whose team she just missed a medal win in fourth place. In the individual, she finished tenth. Four years later , she completed the individual competition in Atlanta in 16th place, while she was sixth with the team.

Velichko fought for CSKA Moscow . She is married to the fencer Anwar Ibragimow .

Web links

• Olga Welitschko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )