Kostevych competes for Ukraine. At the age of 17, she won the
10 m air pistol event at the
2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships. She followed this with a victory in the
2003 ISSF World Cup Final, and an Olympic gold medal at the
2004 Olympics in
Athens. At the
2008 Summer Olympics, she placed 26th in the
25 metre pistol event and 31st in
10 metre air pistol. Her Ukrainian record of 394 is one point
higher than the world record. At the
2012 Summer Olympics in
London, Kostevych won bronze medals in the 10 metre
air pistol and 25 meter
sport pistol competitions. She won no medals at the
2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. At the
2020 Summer Olympics (Tokyo, 25 July 2021), she won 4th place in the 10 metre
air pistol competition; on 27 July 2021 Olena Kostevych and
Oleg Omelchuk won a bronze medal in the ten-metre
air pistol. ==Olympic results==