Mykola Milchev

Mykola Milchev

Milchev (center) at the 2000 Olympics
Medal record
Men's shooting
Representing  Ukraine
Olympic Games
2000 Sydney Skeet

Mykola Mykolayovych Milchev (Ukrainian: Микола Миколайович Мільчев, born November 3, 1967) is a Ukrainian sports 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.

Career

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.

Current world records held in skeet
Men Qualification 125  Vincent Hancock (USA)
 Tore Brovold (NOR)
 Mykola Milchev (UKR)
 Jan Sychra (CZE)
 Tore Brovold (NOR)
 Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT)
June 14, 2007
July 13, 2008
May 9, 2009
May 20, 2009
July 25, 2009
January 17, 2012
Lonato (ITA)
Nicosia (CYP)
Cairo (EGY)
Munich (GER)
Osijek (CRO)

References

  1. Profile: "Mykola Milchev". databaseOlympics.com. Retrieved January 15, 2008.


Olympic Games
Preceded by
Roman Hontyuk
Flagbearer for  Ukraine
Rio de Janeiro 2016
Succeeded by
Incumbent


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