Olga Kharlan


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Birth date
Age
04/09/1990 
22
Height
Weight
Gender
171 cm / 5'7" 
68 kg / 150 lbs 
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Sport
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RankEventYearLocation
Olympic Games
1Sabre Team2008Beijing, CHN
13Sabre Individual2008Beijing, CHN
World Championships
1Sabre Team2009Antalya, TUR
2Sabre Team2012Kiev, UKR
2Sabre Team2011Catania, ITA
2Sabre Individual2010Paris, FRA
2Sabre Team2010Paris, FRA
2Sabre Individual2009Antalya, TUR
2Sabre Team2007St. Petersburg, RUS
3Sabre Individual2011Catania, ITA
European Championships
1Sabre Individual2012Legnano, ITA
1Sabre Individual2011Sheffield, GBR
1Sabre Team2010Leipzig, GER
1Sabre Individual2009Plovdiv, BUL
5Sabre Individual2010Leipzig, GER
World Cup
1Sabre Individual2011/2012Antalya, TUR
1Sabre Individual2010/2011Istanbul, TUR
1Sabre Individual2010/2011London, GBR
1Foil Individual2009/2010Lamezia, ITA
1Sabre Individual2009/2010Tunis, TUN
1Sabre Individual2009/2010Orleans, FRA
1Sabre Individual2008/2009Moscow, RUS
2Sabre Individual2011/2012Bologna, ITA
2Sabre Individual2009/2010Tianjin, CHN
2Sabre Individual2008/2009Orleans, FRA
3Sabre Individual2011/2012Moscow, RUS
3Sabre Individual2011/2012London, GBR
3Sabre Individual2010/2011New York, NY, USA
3Sabre Individual2010/2011Tianjin, CHN
3Sabre Individual2010/2011Bologna, ITA
3Sabre Individual2010/2011Moscow, RUS
3Sabre Individual2008/2009Foggia, ITA
World Junior Championships
1Sabre Individual2010Baku, AZE
1Sabre Individual2009Belfast, GBR

Hobbies

Movies, shopping, listening to pop music (redbull.com, 11 Nov 2010)

Handedness

Right (eurofencing.info, 18 Sep 2011)

Sporting relatives

To help with her fitness, she runs and plays football. (bbc.co.uk, 07 Sep 2011)

Additional information

Start of sporting career
She began fencing at 10 years of age. (redbull.com, 11 Nov 2010)

Reason for taking up this sport
She wanted to be a dancer, and was naturally talented at the samba and cha cha. Her godfather encouraged her to try fencing. "He kept saying, 'That's exactly what you should dedicate your life to,'" she recalls him saying. (redbull.com, 11 Nov 2010)

Ambitions
To win a gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games (bbc.co.uk, 07 Sep 2011)

Training
She does physical exercises from 7:30-9 and team training from 11am-2pm. Then she does individual training from 4-5:30pm. She studies with a sport psychologist from 8-9:30pm and goes to bed at 11pm. (redbull.com, 11 Nov 2010)

Most memorable sporting achievement
Winning bronze at the 2006 European Junior Championships. (fencing.home.pl, 05 Oct 2007)

Hero
"When I'd just started achieving some good results, all the athletes who were fencing in the European and world championships were my heroes, because that was all I could dream about for myself," she says. (redbull.com, 11 Nov 2010)

Sporting philosophy / motto
She says the keys to good fencing are physical strength, the right state of mind, good tactics and self-confidence. (redbull.com, 11 No 2010)

Awards
She is a two-time recipient of Ukraine's Sportswoman of the Year award. (redbull.com, 02 Mar 2011)

General
SPOILS OF VICTORY
After she and her team mates won the gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, she received enough money to build herself a house. By contrast, her family home is a one-bedroom flat. The Ukrainian Fencing Association gave her a car with the Olympic rings emblazoned on the hood. She also accepted a seat in the Mykolayiv town council. "My grandfather says I already have what they didn't manage to get in their whole lifetime, but I will keep striving for more," she says. (bbc.co.uk, 07 Sep 2011)

COVER APPEAL
She and two of her team mates appeared in swimsuits on the cover of the December 2008 issue of XXL, a popular men's magazine in Ukraine. (XXL, 01 Dec 2008)

Previous Olympics

Beijing 2008


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