Pavlo Korostylov | |
Fullname: | Pavlo Serhiyovych Korostylov |
Nationality: | Ukrainian |
Birth Date: | 5 November 1997 |
Birth Place: | Lviv, Ukraine |
Height: | 1.86 m |
Weight: | 85 kg |
Country: | Ukraine |
Sport: | Shooting |
Event: | 10 m air pistol (AP60) 50 m pistol (FP) |
Club: | Educational – Sports Base of Summer Sports Events |
Coach: | Valentina Korostylova Serhiy Korostylov |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Pavlo Serhiyovych Korostylov (Ukrainian: Павло Сергійович Корoстильов; born 5 November 1997) is a Ukrainian sport shooter.[1] He is the 2016 European 10 m pistol bronze medalist.
He is a two-time European junior champion (2012 and 2013) and a gold medalist in the boys' 10 m air pistol at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.[2] Korostylov currently trains for the shooting team at Lviv Sports Club Academy, under his coaching parents Valentina and Serhiy Korostylov.[1] Coming from a sporting pedigree, Korostylov also shares the same discipline with his older sister Yuliya Korostylova, who competed in pistol shooting for Ukraine at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[3] [4]
Korostylov flourished his early sporting success at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, where he fired a final junior world record at 203.4 to secure a gold medal victory in the boys' 10 m air pistol, surpassing then 14-year-old South Korean shooter Kim Cheong-yong by a solid 3.6-point lead.[2] [5]
On his senior debut at the inaugural 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, Korostylov finished fifth in the men's 10 m air pistol final with an astonishing score of 138.2, beating his teammate Oleh Omelchuk by more than twenty-two points. With four other shooters ahead of him having already filled their Olympic quotas in the previous qualification tournaments, Korostylov was guaranteed a place on the Ukrainian squad, and competed for Ukraine at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, finishing in qualifying in 35th place, missing the final round.[6] [7]