Olha Charlan

Olha Charlan medal table
Olha Charlan at the European Championships 2014
fencing
Ukraine
Olympic games
	2008 Beijing	Saber crew
	2016 Rio	Saber crew
	2012 London	saber
	2016 Rio	saber
World championships
gold	2009 Antalya	Saber crew
gold	2013 Budapest	saber
gold	2013 Budapest	Saber crew
gold	2014 Kazan	saber
gold	2019 Budapest	saber
silver	2007 St. Petersburg	Saber crew
silver	2009 Antalya	saber
silver	2010 Paris	saber
silver	2010 Paris	Saber crew
silver	2011 Catania	Saber crew
silver	2012 Kiev	Saber crew
bronze	2011 Catania	saber
bronze	2014 Kazan	Saber crew
European championships
gold	2009 Plovdiv	saber
gold	2009 Plovdiv	Saber crew
gold	2010 Leipzig	Saber crew
gold	2011 Sheffield	saber
gold	2012 Legnano	saber
gold	2013 Zagreb	saber
gold	2014 Strasbourg	saber
silver	2006 Izmir	saber
silver	2007 Ghent	Saber crew
silver	2008 Kiev	Saber crew
silver	2011 Sheffield	Saber crew
silver	2012 Legnano	Saber crew
silver	2013 Zagreb	Saber crew
bronze	2005 Zalaegerszeg	Saber crew
bronze	2014 Strasbourg	Saber crew
bronze	2015 Montreux	Saber crew
gold	2019 Düsseldorf	saber
Universiade
gold	2011 Shenzhen	saber
silver	2011 Shenzhen	Saber crew

Olha Hennadijiwna Charlan ( Ukrainian Ольга Геннадіївна Харлан , English transliteration Olga Kharlan ; born September 4, 1990 in Mykolaiv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian saber fencer , Olympic champion and world champion.

Life

Olha Charlan had dance lessons from the age of six. Since her parents could no longer pay for this, she started fencing training at the age of nine, as her godfather worked as a trainer in a club and this was free of charge for the family. In 2003 she won the Ukrainian fencing championships for the first time.

Olha Charlan was voted Ukrainian "Sportswoman of the Year" because of her sporting success in 2008 and 2009.

Since the Ukrainian regional elections in 2010, Olga Kharlan has been a member of the Mykolaiv City Council for the Party of Regions ; she lives in Mykolaiv . It was nominated for the Ukrainian parliament in the parliamentary elections in 2012 in October. The Party of Regions achieved 72 seats; its 194th place on the electoral list was not enough to enter parliament.

She has an older sister, Tatiana.

successes

After some successes with the juniors, Olha Charlan won her first international medal as an active athlete at the European Fencing Championships 2006 in Izmir , she won silver in the saber singles behind Sofja Velikaya . In 2005 she had already received bronze with the team at the European Championships in Zalaegerszeg .

In the final against China in the saber team competition of the 2008 Olympic Games , Charlan won 22 of the 45 goals and the winning goal and thus pulled the team (Olha Charlan, Olena Chomrowa , Halyna Pundyk and Olha Shownir ) to win the gold medal. In the singles she was eliminated by Sada Jacobson and only reached thirteenth place.

She was extremely successful at the 2009 European Fencing Championships in Plovdiv , where she won the gold medal both in the individual competition and with the Ukrainian team. Later, both individually and as a team, were named Ukrainian Sportsman of the Year 2009 . In the same year at the fencing world championships , Olha Charlan won the gold medal with the team and in the individual she only lost to Mariel Zagunis and thus won silver.

At the European Fencing Championships 2010 she won the gold medal again with the team. In both 2011 and 2012 she won the gold medal at the European Individual Championships. At the 2012 Olympics , she won the battle for third place against Mariel Zagunis and received the bronze medal.

In 2013 she won gold in singles at the Summer Universiade in Kazan , was European individual champion in Zagreb and world champion in Budapest both singles and with a team. In 2014 she was again individual European and individual world champion .

In 2016 she won the bronze medal in saber fencing against the Frenchman Manon Brunet at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

Honors

On July 25, 2013 she was awarded the Ukrainian Order of Merit 1st Class by the Ukrainian President for achieving high sports results at the XXVII. World Summer Universiade awarded in Kazan.

Web links

Commons : Olha Charlan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Olha Charlan - Rankings and Results in the database of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (English / French)
• Olha Charlan in the database of the European Fencing Confederation (English)
• Olha Charlan in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Olha Charlan in the ophardt-team.org database
• Olha Charlan at nahouw.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olga is into Marilyn . Interview with Olha Charlan in The Red Bulletin August 2013
2. ↑ Харлан - найкраща спортсменка року за версією НОК | Чемпіон (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ Николаев Statistic for refuse Q депутатського корпусу - Офіційний портал Миколаївської Міської Ради ( Memento of the original on 15 May 2005 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Ukrainian), Composition of the Mykolaiv City Council  
4. ↑ European Championships 2009 Plovdiv (Bulgaria)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  
5. ↑ Галина Пундик, Ольга Жовнір та Олена Хомрова - Фото УНІАН (Ukrainian), UNIAN from April 7, 2010
6. ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 392/2013 of July 25, 2013. Accessed August 8, 2016 (Ukrainian).