Sergei Evglevski

Fast Facts

Sport: Shooting
Event: Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
Olympic History: Tokyo 2020
Highlights: Winning three Oceania Championships gold medals
Coach: Vladimir Galiabovitch
Year Born: 1997
Place Born: Minsk, Belarus

About Sergei

Sergei Evglevski’s favourite sporting moment happened in a classroom and involved taking his mother’s Olympic bronze medal to show and tell.

Lalita Yauhleuskaya competed for Belarus at the 1996 and 2000 Games, winning a bronze medal at Sydney in the 25m Pistol, then attended four Games for Australia between 2004 to 2016.

Evglesvki followed in his mother’s footsteps with his selection on the Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo 2020. It became the seventh consecutive occasion a member of his family has competed in an Olympic Games.

Sergei started shooting in 2012 and developed his skills at the Yarra Pistol Club in Melbourne.

"I began my sport because my mum was so successful in shooting and it motivated me to try and achieve as much success as her," he said.

He began competing internationally in 2015 and immediately made an impression winning junior and open Oceania titles in the men’s 10m air pistol and men’s 25m rapid fire pistol respectively.

In 2017 he bagged six junior World Cup medals including four bronze and two silver across the men’s 25m standard pistol, pistol, and rapid fire pistol events.

The same year he added a further two Oceania Championships medals to his collection, winning gold in the men’s 25m rapid pistol and silver in the men’s 10m air pistol.

At the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, Evglevski won a silver medal in the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol.

In 2020 Evglevski achieved a clean sweep of Australia’s Olympic trials, winning all four events to lock in his position on the team. At the delayed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Evglevski finished 17th in the men’s rapid fire pistol.

He claimed his first ISSF World Cup medal in 2023, silver, when he finished runner-up in the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol in Jakarta.