Ukrainian serviceman Kulish wins European Championship in bullet shooting

The captain of Ukraine's armed forces, Serhii Kulish, won the European Championship in Shotgun Shooting in the Croatian city of Osijek. He competed in ten-meter air rifle shooting.

The Ministry of Youth and Sports reported this.

In the European Championship final, the Ukrainian surpassed the "neutral" representative and won by 0.3 points.

Serhii Kulish won his first personal "gold" and first medal at the European Championships in this discipline.

Seventeen athletes are representing Ukraine at the European shooting championships, which will take place from March 7 to 13. A total of 325 shooters from 42 countries are vying for medals at Euro 2025.

Moreover, Ukrainian Serhii Kulish secured a silver medal in the Olympic competition for 50-meter rifle shooting from three positions in Paris.

Kulish became the first Ukrainian shooter to qualify for the 2024 Olympics in shooting. In the selection, he showed the third result, and in the kneeling and standing positions he knocked out 199 out of 200 points.

Kulish performed for the second time in the final of rifle shooting from three positions at a distance of 50 meters at the Olympic level. At the previous Games in Tokyo, he fought for a medal for a long time, but at the decisive moment he accidentally fired a shot at someone else's target and ended up eighth.

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Ukrainian track and field athlete Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the indoor high jump gold medal for the third time at the European Championships.

In the men's high jump final at the European Indoor Athletics Championships held the previous day, track and field athlete Oleh Doroshchuk achieved a remarkable feat by clearing 2.34 meters. This exceptional performance marked the best high jump by a Ukrainian in eight years, earning Doroshchuk the gold medal.