Alina Ivanivna Komashchuk (Ukrainian: Аліна Іванівна Комащук; born 24 April 1993[2][3]) is a Ukrainian sabre fencer. She is an Olympic champion and silver medallist in the team sabre event. Komashchuk won the gold medal in the team sabre event at the 2024 Summer Olympics and the silver medal in the team sabre event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[4][5] She is also a World Championships gold and silver medallist, European Games champion and European Championships silver and bronze medallist in the team sabre.[6]
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| Native name | Аліна Іванівна Комащук | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Alina Ivanivna Komashchuk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Ukrainian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 April 1993 Netishyn, Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Sabre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | CSKA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editIn April 2013, Komashchuk won the gold medal in the Women's Sabre at the 2013 Junior and Cadet World Championship, held in the Croatian town of Poreč.[7][8] On August 12, 2013 she won the Gold medal (with Olha Kharlan, Halyna Pundyk and Olena Voronina) at the Women's team sabre at the 2013 World Fencing Championships in Budapest, Hungary.[9]
During the 2012–13 season Komashchuk was ranked 4th in the World in the Women's Junior Individual Sabre classement by the Federation Internationale d'Escrime (FIE).[10]
Personal life
editKomashchuk was born in Netishyn, Ukraine. As of 2013, was a student at the Kamyanets-Podilsky Ivan Ohienko National University.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Medalist 1950 to 2009" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 August 2016.
- ^ a b Personal Information: Athletes / KOMASHCHUK Alina, on the 2013 Summer Universiade official website
- ^ Team Ukraine at the first Youth Olympic Games Archived 2013-08-12 at archive.today, Ministry of Youth and Sports (2013) (in Ukrainian)
- ^ "Ukraine fight back in women's fencing to secure first gold of Paris Olympics". The Guardian. 2024-08-03. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
- ^ Hodunova, Kateryna (2024-08-03). "Ukraine's saber team on the hunt for Paris Olympic medal after bouncing back from years of failure". The Kyiv Independent. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
- ^ "Alina Komashchuk". European Fencing Confederation. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
- ^ "Alina KOMASHCHUK". the-sports.org.
- ^ Олена Садовник (2013-05-01). "Шаблістка Аліна КОМАЩУК: "Тепер я вже нічого не боюся!"". Archived from the original on 2013-09-26. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
- ^ Russia's Yuliya Gavrilova fights with Ukraine's Alina Komashchuk, Getty Images (12 August 2013)
- ^ "FIE Rankings". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
External links
edit- Alina Komashchuk at the International Fencing Federation
- Alina Komashchuk at the European Fencing Confederation
- Alina Komashchuk at Olympics.com
- Alina Komashchuk at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Rankings at the Wayback Machine (archived December 27, 2013)
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