Mykola Milchev

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Olympic medal record
Men's shooting
Gold	2000 Sydney	Skeet

Mykola Milchev (Ukrainian: Микола Мільчев, born November 3, 1967) is a Ukrainian sports shooter and Olympic Champion. He won Gold medal in Skeet shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney,^[1] setting Olympic record with a perfect score of 150, and also tying the world record.

The skeet rules were changed in 2005, removing the old world records, but in May 2009 at the ISSF World Cup in Cairo, Milchev once again achieved a perfect qualification score of 125 to equal the world record.

Mykola Milchev (center) winning the Skeet Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympic in Sydney. Petr Malek (left, silver), and James Graves (right, bronze)

Current world records held in skeet
Men	Qualification	125	Vincent Hancock (USA) Tore Brovold (AUS) 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

↑ Profile: "Mykola Milchev" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on January 15, 2008)

v t e Olympic champions in men's skeet

1968: Yevgeni Petrov 1972: Konrad Wirnhier 1976: Josef Panáček 1980: Hans Kjeld Rasmussen 1984: Matthew Dryke 1988: Axel Wegner 1992: Zhang Shan¹ 1996: Ennio Falco 2000: Mykola Milchev 2004: Andrea Benelli 2008: Vincent Hancock 2012: Vincent Hancock ¹ From 1972 until 1992, the event was open to women as well as men. Zhang is the only woman to have won it.

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Name	Milchev, Mykola
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Short description	Sport shooter
Date of birth	November 3, 1967
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