Svitlana Kashchenko

Svitlana Kashchenko de Lopéz (born December 16, 1968 in Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian-born Nicaraguan sport shooter.[2] Kashchenko has achieved a ninth-place finish in women's air rifle at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, and later represented Nicaragua at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she became the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.[1][3] Throughout her sporting career, Kashchenko has been training for the Nicaraguan Shooting Federation (Spanish: Federación Nicaragüense de Tiro, Fenitíro) in Managua (where she currently resides.[4]

Svitlana Kashchenko
Personal information
Full nameSvitlana Kashchenko de Lopéz
Nationality Nicaragua
Born (1968-12-16) 16 December 1968
Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR,
Soviet Union
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)10 m air rifle (AR40)
50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)
ClubFenitíro[1]

Kashchenko qualified for the Nicaraguan squad in two sport shooting events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by receiving a wild card entry from ISSF On the first day of the Games, Kashchenko scored a total of 383 points to share a forty-first place tie with Jamaica's Dawn Kobayashi in the women's 10 m air rifle.[5] Six days later, in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, Kashchenko obtained 189 shots in a prone position, 183 in standing, and 191 in kneeling to deliver a twenty-eighth-place finish in a vast field of 33 shooters with a total score of 563.[6]

References
  1. "ISSF Profile – Svitlana Kashchenko". ISSF. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Svitlana Kashchenko". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  3. "2004 Athens: Flag Bearers for the Opening Ceremony". Olympics. 13 August 2004. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  4. "Federación de Tiro expulsó a Svitlana Kashchenko" [Shooting federation expelled Svitlana Kashchenko] (in Spanish). El Nuevo Diario. 20 June 2007. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  5. "Women's 10m Air Rifle Qualification". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. "Women's 50m Rifle Three Positions Qualification". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.


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