Olena Vitaliyivna Kravatska (; born 22 June 1992) is a Ukrainian sabre fencer. Competing in team events, she is the 2015 World silver medalist and 2016 Olympic silver medalist.

Career

Kravatska won a silver medal in the 2010 Junior European Championships and a team gold medal the same year in the Junior World Championships.

Olena Kravatska

In the 2013–14 season she took part in her first major competition amongst seniors. At the European Championships in Strasbourg, she ranked 2nd after the pools and received a bye. She was then defeated in the table of 32 by Germany's Sibylle Klemm and finished 17th. At the World Championships in Kazan, she was defeated in the table of 64 by Olympic silver medal Sofiya Velikaya. In the team event, she was selected as reserve into the Ukrainian team. They defeated first Japan, then South Korea before falling 44–45 to the United States. Ukraine overcame Italy in the small final to earn a bronze medal.

Olena Kravatska

In the 2014–15 season Kravatska climbed her first World Cup with a bronze medal in the Orléans World Cup.

Olena Kravatska

References

External links

Profile at the European Fencing Confederation

1992 births

Living people

Armed Forces (sports society) sportspeople in Ukraine

Ukrainian female sabre fencers

Fencers at the 2015 European Games

European Games medalists in fencing

European Games gold medalists for Ukraine

Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Olympic fencers for Ukraine

Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Olympic silver medalists for Ukraine

Olympic medalists in fencing

Sportspeople from Chernivtsi

21st-century Ukrainian women

21st-century Ukrainian people

Fencers at the 2023 European Games