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Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Minsk, Byelorussian SSR (now Belarus), Soviet Union | 13 November 1989|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 25m Sports Pistol | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Vladimir Galiabovitch | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elena Galiabovitch (born 13 November 1989) [1] is an Australian shooter and physician. She represented Australia at the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Olympics.
Galiabovitch competed in the 2018 Commonwealth Games and won a bronze medal in the Women's 10 metre air pistol event. [2]
She represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, in both the Women's 10 metre air pistol and 25 metre Pistol events. At that same Games, in recognition of her effort as a frontline worker during the COVID-19 pandemic, Galiabovitch was selected by the International Olympic Committee as one of six athletes to carry the Olympic flag at the Games’ opening ceremony. [3]
Elena is a Melbourne-based physician and studying a master's degree to become a urological surgeon. [4]
Her father, Vladimir Galiabovitch, is her coach as well as other members of the national team. Vladimir and his family migrated to Australia when Elena was 4 [4] in 1994. [5] The sickness of Elena was the reason for Vladimir to consider migration. [5]
Vladimir also coached Iran, Singapore, and Kuwait before returning to Australia in 2013, [5] while his daughter, Elena, rejoins the sport in 2014, after quitting it for the first time at teen. [4]
Munkhbayar Dorjsuren is a Mongolian-German sport shooter. She was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, but moved to Germany and became a German citizen. She is the 1992 Olympic bronze medalist in the Women's 25 metre pistol for Mongolia and the 2008 Olympic bronze medalist in the same event for Germany. She competes in the 25 metre and 10 metre air pistol events.
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