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Full name | Nataliya Olehivna Kalnysh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | 2 July 1974|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 10 m air rifle (
AR40) 50 m rifle 3 positions ( STR3X20) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Club Krivoy-Rog Ukraina [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Oleksandr Skuratovskii [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nataliya Olehivna Kalnysh (also Natallia Kalnysh, Ukrainian: Наталія Олегівна Кальниш; born 2 July 1974 in Kryvyi Rih) is a Ukrainian sport shooter. [2]
Kalnysh made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed twenty-eighth in the 10 m air rifle, and twenty-ninth in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, with total scores of 390 and 568 points, respectively. [3] [4]
She won a silver medal in the rifle three positions at the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Lahti, Finland, accumulating a score of 674.1 points. [1] [5]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Kalnysh finished fourteenth in the preliminary rounds of the women's 10 m air rifle, with a total score of 394 points, tying her position with five other shooters including United States' Hattie Johnson, and Poland's Agnieszka Staroń. She also accumulated a score of 677.2 targets (579 in the preliminary rounds and 98.2 in the final) in her second event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, by four tenths of a point (0.4) behind Germany's Barbara Lechner, finishing only in eighth place. [6]
Eight years after competing in her first Olympics, Kalnysh qualified for her third Ukrainian team, as a 34-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by finishing second in the rifle three positions ( STR3X20) from the 2006 ISSF World Cup series in Milan, Italy. [1] She placed twenty-seventh in the women's 10 m air rifle by one point behind Bulgaria's Desislava Balabanova from the final attempt, with a total score of 393 points. [7] Nearly a week later, Kalnysh competed for her second event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, where she was able to shoot 194 targets in a prone position, 185 in standing, and 192 in kneeling, for a total score of 571 points, finishing only in thirty-first place. [8]
Event | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 |
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50 metre rifle three positions |
29th 568 |
8th 579+98.2 |
31st 571 |
10 metre air rifle |
28th 390 |
14th 394 |
27th 393 |