Mykola Milchev
 Milchev (center) at the 2000 Olympics | ||
| Medal record | ||
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| Men's shooting | ||
Representing  Ukraine | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 2000 Sydney | Skeet |
Mykola Mykolayovych Milchev (Ukrainian: Микола Миколайович Мільчев, born November 3, 1967) is a Ukrainian sports shooter. He is the 2000 Olympic champion in skeet shooting.[1] With a perfect score of 150, he set an Olympic record and tied the world record.
Career
Milchev won gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The skeet rules were changed in 2005, removing the old world records, but in May 2009 at the ISSF World Cup in Cairo, he once again achieved a perfect qualification score of 125 to equal the world record.
Milchev served as Ukraine's flagbearer at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
| Current world records held in skeet | ||||||
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| Men | Qualification | 125 |  Vincent Hancock (USA) Tore Brovold (NOR) 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) |
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References
- ↑ Profile: "Mykola Milchev". databaseOlympics.com. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
| Olympic Games | ||
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| Preceded by Roman Hontyuk |
Flagbearer for Ukraine Rio de Janeiro 2016 |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
Olympic champions in men's skeet | |
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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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