Oksana Zakharchuk

Oksana Zakharchuk
Personal information
Full name Oksana Volodymyrivna
Zakharchuk
Nationality  Ukraine
Born (1980-04-03) 3 April 1980
Ostroh, Ukrainian SSR,
Soviet Union
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Shot put
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) Shot put: 19.05 (2004)

Oksana Volodymyrivna Zakharchuk (Ukrainian: Оксана Володимирівна Захарчук; born April 3, 1980 in Ostroh) is a retired Ukrainian shot putter.[1] She represented her nation Ukraine in the women's shot put at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also set a personal best of 19.05 metres from the national athletics meet in Kiev.[2]

Zakharchuk qualified for the Ukrainian squad in the women's shot put at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Nearly a week before the Games commenced, she attained a personal best and an Olympic A-standard of 19.05 metres on her last bid from the national athletics meet in Kiev.[2][3] During the prelims, Zakharchuk unleashed the ball into the field with her best possible effort at 17.28 on her second attempt, falling short to reach her two-week-old personal best by 177 centimetres. As she committed a foul in her final shot, Zakharchuk's feat was worthily enough to secure a twentieth spot from a roster of thirty-eight athletes in the overall standings, nearly missing out the final round by 0.88 metres behind the last qualifier Li Meiju of China.[4][5]

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