Olena Kostevych

Olena Kostevych is a Ukrainian pistol shooter, born on 14 April 1985 in Khabarovsk in the Soviet Union, who moved to her mother's city of Chernihiv and studied at the Chernihiv State Technological University. At seventeen she won the 10 metre air pistol at the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships, followed by the 2003 World Cup Final and the Olympic gold medal in the 10 metre air pistol at the 2004 Games in Athens. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London she won bronze medals in both the 10 metre air pistol and the 25 metre sport pistol. At the Tokyo Games she placed fourth in the individual 10 metre air pistol and took a bronze in the 10 metre air pistol mixed team with Oleg Omelchuk. She is also the 2018 world champion in the 25 metre pistol.