Olena Voronina

Olena Voronina

Voronina at the 2014 European Championships
Personal information
Native name Олена Олександрівна Вороніна
Nationality Ukrainian
Born (1990-05-05) 5 May 1990
Residence Kharkiv, Ukraine
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Sport
Country Ukraine
Sport Fencing
Event(s) Sabre
Medal record
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro Team sabre
World Championships
2013 Budapest Team
2015 Moscow Team
2014 Kazan Team
European Championships
2013 Zagreb Team
2014 Strasbourg Team
2015 Montreux Individual
2015 Montreux Team
Summer Universiade
2009 Belgrade Team

Olena Oleksandrivna Voronina (Ukrainian: Олена Олександрівна Вороніна; born 5 May 1990[1]) is a Ukrainian sabre fencer. She is the 2013 World team champion, 2015 European individual bronze medalist, and 2016 Olympic team silver medalist.

Life and career

Voronina won a gold medal in the women's team sabre at the 2013 World Fencing Championships.[1][2][3] She and the Ukrainian team won bronze in 2014 and silver in 2015.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Voronina won the silver medal with team members Olha Kharlan, Alina Komashchuk, and Olena Kravatska.

Voronina lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine.[4] She is a student at the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Personal Information: Olena Voronina". 2013 Summer Universiade official website. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Russia's Yuliya Gavrilova fights with Ukraine's Olena Voronina". Getty Images. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  3. ↑ "Olena Voronina". European Fencing Confederation. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  4. ↑ "O. Vilkul: Construction of new sports venues to Eurobasket 2015 to give a new impetus to the development of Kharkov" (Press release). Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. 2013-08-16. Retrieved 17 September 2013.


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