Natallia Kalnysh

Nataliya Olehivna Kalnysh (also Natallia Kalnysh, Ukrainian: Наталія Олегівна Кальниш; born July 2, 1974 in Kryvyi Rih) is a Ukrainian sport shooter.[2]

Natallia Kalnysh

Personal information
Full name	Nataliya Olehivna Kalnysh
Nationality	Ukraine
Born	(1974-07-02) 2 July 1974 Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR
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 Women's shooting Representing  Ukraine World Championships 2002 Lahti STR3X20 European Championships 2017 Baku 50m rifle prone team

Career

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]

Olympic results

Event	2000	2004	2008
50 metre rifle three positions	29th 568	8th 579+98.2	31st 571
10 metre air rifle	28th 390	14th 394	27th 393

References

1. "ISSF Profile – Natallia Kalnysh". ISSF. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Natallia Kalnysh". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
3. "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Women's 10m Air Rifle" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 78–80. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
4. "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 81–86. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
5. "Russia Reigns Supreme at the ISSF World Shooting Cup". Chinese Olympic Committee. 29 April 2004. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
6. "Shooting: Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
7. "Women's 10m Air Rifle Qualification". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
8. "Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Qualification". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2013.

External links

• NBC 2008 Olympics profile