Olena Buryak


Olena Buryak is a Ukrainian rower.
She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's double sculls with Hanna Kravchenko. She was part of the Ukrainian women's quadruple sculls team, with Daryna Verkhohliad, Anastasiia Kozhenkova and Yevheniya Nimchenko, at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The team finished 4th. 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.
She rows for Spartak Kiev.

Indoor rowing career

Buryak is a multiple world record holder in women's indoor rowing, and is the fastest woman ever over the 2000 metres distance.
She won the CRASH-B Sprints in 2013 and 2017.