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Olena Buryak
Ukrainian rower From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Olena Buryak (Ukrainian: Олена Буряк; born 8 February 1988 in Mykolaiv) is a Ukrainian rower.
She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's double sculls with Hanna Kravchenko.[1] She was part of the Ukrainian women's quadruple sculls team, with Daryna Verkhohliad, Anastasiia Kozhenkova and Yevheniya Nimchenko, at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[2] The team finished 4th.[2] She was also part of the Ukrainian quadruple sculls team that finished second at the 2010 World Rowing Championships. The team consisted of Buryak, Kozhenkova, Kateryna Tarasenko and Yana Dementieva.[3]
She rows for Spartak Kyiv.[4]
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Indoor rowing career
Buryak is a multiple world record holder in women's indoor rowing, and was the fastest woman ever over the 2000 metres distance until Brooke Mooney surpassed her in 2021.[citation needed]
She won the CRASH-B Sprints in 2013 and 2017.[5][6]
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