Pavlo Serhiyovych Korostylov (Ukrainian: Павло Сергійович Корoстильов; born 5 November 1997) is a Ukrainian sport shooter.[1] He is the 2016 European 10 m pistol bronze medalist.
Career
He is a two-time European junior champion (2012 and 2013) and a gold medalist in the boys' 10 m air pistol at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.[2] Korostylov currently trains for the shooting team at Lviv Sports Club Academy, under his coaching parents Valentina and Serhiy Korostylov.[1] Coming from a sporting pedigree, Korostylov also shares the same discipline with his older sister Yuliya Korostylova, who competed in pistol shooting for Ukraine at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[3][4]
Korostylov flourished his early sporting success at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, where he fired a final junior world record at 203.4 to secure a gold medal victory in the boys' 10 m air pistol, surpassing then 14-year-old South Korean shooter Kim Cheong-yong by a solid 3.6-point lead.[2][5]
On his senior debut at the inaugural 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, Korostylov finished fifth in the men's 10 m air pistol final with an astonishing score of 138.2, beating his teammate Oleh Omelchuk by more than twenty-two points. With four other shooters ahead of him having already filled their Olympic quotas in the previous qualification tournaments, Korostylov was guaranteed a place on the Ukrainian squad, and competed for Ukraine at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, finishing in qualifying in 35th place, missing the final round.[6][7]
References
- ^ a b c d "ISSF Profile – Pavlo Korostylov". ISSF. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ^ a b "Pavlo Korostylov stays focused to secure shooting gold". Olympics. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ^ Ceschi, Alessandro (11 June 2014). "Pavlo Korostylov: motivated to win". ISSF. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ^ "Павло Коростильов – кращий спортсмен Львівщини" [Pavlo Korostylov – Lviv's best athlete] (in Ukrainian). Galychyna Sportivna. 28 December 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ^ Ceschi, Alessandro (18 August 2014). "Pistol favorite Korostylov smoothly wins in Nanjing". ISSF. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ^ "Damir Mikec fires Serbia to third Shooting gold". Baku 2015. 16 June 2015. Archived from the original on June 17, 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "17-річний стрілок приносить Україні олімпійську ліцензію на Ріо-2016" [17-year-old shooter achieves an Olympic license for Rio 2016] (in Ukrainian). Espreso TV. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
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