
HAVE A GO AT OLYMPIC SPORTS
HAVE A GO AT OLYMPIC SPORTS
Age
35
Place of Birth
Minsk, Belarus
Hometown
Melbourne, VIC
Junior Club
Oakleigh Pistol Club
Senior Club
Oakleigh Pistol Club
Coach
Vladimir Galiabovitch
Olympic History
Rio 2016
Tokyo 2020
Paris 2024
Career Events
Shooting Women's 10m Air Pistol
Shooting Women's 25m Pistol
Elena Galiabovitch was born in Belarus, moved to Australia when she was four and decided to try shooting after her parents met through the sport.
She competed on and off for a decade and began to knuckle down in 2014, initially to spend time with her dad, but then "found the desire and drive to be selected for teams and started taking it more seriously,” she explained.
Elena is coached by her father Vladimir who is also Australia’s national pistol coach. In 2015 she claimed her first international title when she won women’s 25 m pistol gold at the Oceania Championships.
A member of Victoria’s Oakleigh Pistol Club, Elena was selected to make her Olympic debut at the Rio 2016 Games, where she lined up in both the women’s 25m pistol and women’s 10m air pistol events, finishing 32nd and 43rd respectively.
At the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, Elena claimed silver in the women’s 25m pistol and bronze in the women’s 10m air pistol. The Melbourne doctor took three months off work to prepare for her Commonwealth Games debut.
In the same year, Elena achieved a career first when she won women’s 25m pistol gold at a World Cup event in Changwon, Korea. As well as it being the first World Cup medal of her career, Elena achieved a personal best 296 score over China’s Lin Yuemei. She won the title in a shoot-off, three hits against two.
Elena won the women’s 25m pistol gold at the 2019 Oceania Championships to secure Australia a quota position at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. She went on to book her ticket to Tokyo after winning all four of Australia’s women’s 25m pistol Olympic selection events.
In Tokyo, Elena narrowly missed qualifying for the women’s 25m Pistol final when placed 11th, and finished 27th in the women’s 10m Air Pistol.
Elena had the honour of being one of six COVID-19 frontline medical workers to carry the Olympic flag into Opening Ceremony representing Oceania.
“I greatly appreciated the recognition given to healthcare and essential workers in the Opening Ceremony by the Tokyo 2020 organising committee,” she said.
“I felt great pride in being chosen to represent and gratitude, because without the healthcare workers around the globe the event would not have been possible.”
At Paris 2024, Elena competed in the women's 10m air pistol and 25m pistol events, finishing 37th and 35th respectively.
With her friends and family supporting her in Paris, Elena enjoyed the competition.
“I was the first Aussie from the shooting team to compete and I felt the support of the whole team, and from everyone back home. I was also very fortunate to have my mum watching on in the stands."
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