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Mykola Milchev
Mykola Mykolayovych Milchev (Ukrainian: Микола Миколайович Мільчев, born 3 November 1967) is a Ukrainian sport shooter. He is the 2000 Olympic champion in skeet shooting.[1] With a perfect score of 150, he set an Olympic record and tied the world record.
Milchev (center) at the 2000 Olympics | ||
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's shooting | ||
| Representing Ukraine | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| 2000 Sydney | Skeet | |
| World Championships | ||
| 2023 Baku | Team mixed skeet | |
Career edit
Milchev won gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The skeet rules were changed in 2005, removing the old world records, but in May 2009 at the ISSF World Cup in Cairo, he once again achieved a perfect qualification score of 125 to equal the world record.
Milchev served as Ukraine's flagbearer at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
| World records held in Skeet from 2005 to 2012 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Qualification | 125 | Vincent Hancock (USA) Tore Brovold (NOR) Mykola Milchev (UKR) Jan Sychra (CZE) Tore Brovold (NOR) Jan Sychra (CZE) Antonakis Andreou (CYP) Juan José Aramburu (ESP) Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT) Anthony Terras (FRA) Efthimios Mitas (GRE) | 14 June 2007 13 July 2008 9 May 2009 20 May 2009 25 July 2009 7 March 2011 22 April 2011 13 September 2011 17 January 2012 26 March 2012 26 March 2012 | Lonato (ITA) Nicosia (CYP) Cairo (EGY) Munich (GER) Osijek (CRO) Concepción (CHI) Beijing (CHN) Belgrade (SER) Doha (QAT) Tucson (USA) Tucson (USA) | edit |
References edit
- ^ Profile: "Mykola Milchev" 2012-10-11 at the Wayback Machine. databaseOlympics.com. Retrieved January 15, 2008.