Anastasiia Vladyslavivna Pavlova (Ukrainian: Анастасі́я Владисла́вівна Па́влова; born February 9, 1995) is a Ukrainian competitive archer.[1] She has collected a career total of at least ten medals in major international competitions, spanning the World Indoor Championships, the European Games, the World Cup series, and the European Championships.

Anastasiia Pavlova
Anastasia Pavlova at the 2023 European Games
Personal information
Full nameAnastasiia Vladyslavivna
Pavlova
NicknameNastya
Born (1995-02-09) 9 February 1995 (age 29)
Nova Kakhovka, Ukraine
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
Country Ukraine
SportArchery
EventRecurve
Medal record
Women's archery
Representing Ukraine
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Nimes Team
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Nimes Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Yankton Team
European Games
Silver medal – second place 2023 Krakow Mixed team
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Baku Team
European Archery Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Nottingham Team
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Nottingham Mixed team
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Laško Team
Gold medal – first place 2024 Varaždin Team
Silver medal – second place 2024 Varaždin Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Vittel Team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Samsun Team
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Laško Individual
World Junior Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Las Vegas Team
Silver medal – second place 2012 Las Vegas Individual
World Youth Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Wuxi Team

Career

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Pavlova rose to prominence on the global archery scene at the 2014 World Indoor Championships in Nimes, France. There, she and her compatriots Lidiia Sichenikova and Veronika Marchenko powered past the German women (234–220) on a tactical 14-point advantage to capture the team recurve title (234–220).[2][3] Pavlova also added the bronze to the trio's career treasury by ousting the neighboring Russia in a high-quality 5–4 shoot-off at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan.[4]

Pavlova was selected to compete for the Ukrainian squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, shooting in both individual and team recurve tournaments.[5] Two months before her maiden Games, she helped her Ukrainian colleagues overcome the Estonian side from the semi-final match for one of three women's team spaces at the World Archery Cup meet in Antalya, Turkey.[6] Pavlova opened the tournament by discharging a total of 630 points, 18 perfect tens, and 6 bull's eyes to lead the Ukrainian women for the twenty-ninth seed heading to the knockout draw from the classification round, along with the trio's cumulative score of 1,890.[7] Sitting at eighth in the women's team recurve, Pavlova, along with Marchenko and Sichenikova, slipped out of their initial round match to a convincing 2–6 defeat from the ninth-seeded Japanese women.[8][9] In the women's individual recurve, Pavlova successfully blanked Kazakhstan's Luiza Saidiyeva for a comfortable 6–0 victory in the opening round, before losing her subsequent match by a similar scoreline to the Taiwanese archer and team bronze medalist Tan Ya-ting.[10][11]

She won the bronze medal in the women's recurve event at the 2022 European Indoor Archery Championships held in Laško, Slovenia.[12] She also won the gold medal in the women's team recurve event.[12]

References

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  1. ^ "Anastasia Pavlova". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Meet the Team: Defending Champs Lidiia, Veronika and Anastasia". World Archery. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Ukraine find success at Nimes during crisis at home". World Archery. 28 February 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  4. ^ "Baku 2015: Italy twice, Spain, Ukraine and Germany win gold". World Archery. 22 June 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Состав сборной Украины на Олимпиаду в Рио-2016" [The composition of the Ukrainian team for Rio 2016] (in Russian). Telegraf.com.ua. 30 July 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  6. ^ "6 teams claim Rio 2016 berths at final world qualifier". World Archery Federation. 16 June 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  7. ^ "Рио-2016. Украинки Павлова, Марченко и Сиченикова заняли 29-е, 30-е и 31-е место в квалификации по стрельбе из лука" [Rio 2016: Ukraine's Pavlova, Marchenko, and Sichenikova takes the twenty-ninth, thirtieth, and thirty-first seed in the archery ranking round] (in Ukrainian). Tribuna. 5 August 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  8. ^ "Archery: Women's Team Round of 16". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  9. ^ "Женская сборная по стрельбе из лука уступает в 1/8 финала" [The women's archery team lost the round of 16 match] (in Ukrainian). Isport.ua. 7 August 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  10. ^ "Archery: Women's Individual Round of 32". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  11. ^ "Призерка Олимпиады-2016 не пустила украинку Анастасию Павлову в 1/8 по стрельбе из лука" [2016 Olympic team medalist denied Pavlova to pass the round of 16] (in Ukrainian). Segodnya. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  12. ^ a b "2022 European Indoor Archery Championships" (PDF). World Archery Europe. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
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