Viktoria Chuyko

Viktoria Chuyko
Personal information
Full name Viktoriya Vasylivna Chuiko
Nationality  Ukraine
Born (1972-03-01) 1 March 1972
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR,
Soviet Union
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 90 kg (198 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) Trap (TR75)

Viktoriya Vasylivna Chuiko (also Viktoria Chuyko, Ukrainian: Вікторія Василівна Чуйко; born March 1, 1972 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian sport shooter.[1] She represented her nation Ukraine in trap shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and currently holds the prelim world record in her own discipline, set at the 1998 European Shooting Championships in Nicosia, Cyprus with a marvelous score of 74 hits.[2][3]

Chuyko qualified for the Ukrainian squad in the women's trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by securing her Olympic ticket and having obtained a minimum score of 71 hits to claim the gold medal at the 2003 ISSF World Shotgun Championships in Nicosia, Cyprus.[2][3][4] She amassed a total score of 54 hits out of 75 targets to seal a fifteenth-place finish in the prelims, escaping from the last spot in a field of seventeen shooters by six hits.[5]

References

  1. "Viktoria Chuyko". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 "ISSF Profile – Viktoria Chuyko". ISSF. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  3. 1 2 Sadovnik, Olena (17 September 2003). "Вікторія Вікторії" [Victory for Victoria] (in Ukrainian). Postup. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  4. "Athens 2004: Shooting – Entry List by NOC" (PDF). Athens 2004. LA84 Foundation. p. 35. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  5. "Shooting: Women's Trap Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

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