Pavlo Korostylov

Pavlo Korostylov
Personal information
Full name Pavlo Serhiyovych Korostylov
Nationality  Ukraine
Born (1997-05-11) 11 May 1997
Lviv, Ukraine
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 12 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m air pistol (AP60)
50 m pistol (FP)
Club SCA Lviv[1]
Coached by Valentina Korostylova
Serhiy Korostylov[1]

Pavlo Serhiyovych Korostylov (Ukrainian: Павло Сергійович Корoстильов; born May 11, 1997 in Lviv) 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 has guaranteed a place on the Ukrainian squad, and is expected to compete for Ukraine at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[6][7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "ISSF Profile – Pavlo Korostylov". ISSF. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Pavlo Korostylov stays focused to secure shooting gold". Olympics. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  3. Ceschi, Alessandro (11 June 2014). "Pavlo Korostylov: motivated to win". ISSF. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  4. "Павло Коростильов – кращий спортсмен Львівщини" [Pavlo Korostylov – Lviv's best athlete] (in Ukrainian). Galychyna Sportivna. 28 December 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  5. Ceschi, Alessandro (18 August 2014). "Pistol favorite Korostylov smoothly wins in Nanjing". ISSF. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  6. "Damir Mikec fires Serbia to third Shooting gold". Baku 2015. 16 June 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  7. "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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