Iryna Shchukla

Shchukla started her sport career by studying at Netishyn Fencing School, from where she graduated in 2013.^[1][2]

She won the silver medal in the girls' sabre team event with the Team I at th e 2010 Ukrainian Juniors Open Fencing Championships in Mykolaiv.^[3] In November 2013, she took the bronze medal in the junior women's sabre individual event at the 2014–15 Fencing World Cup's leg in Dormagen, Germany.^[4] At the U23 European Fencing Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2014, she received the bronze medal in the women's U23 sabre individual event.^[1][5][6] The same year, she became champion in the individual event at the Junior World Sabre Fencing Cup in Sosnowiec, Poland.^[1] In October 2014, she reached to a bronze medal at the 2014–15 Fencing World Cup (Tournoi satellite, Bursa), Turkey. In 2015, she became Ukrainian junior women's champion in sabre.^[7] At the XII Ukrainian University Games of 2015 in Lviv, she took the bronze medal.^[2] She competed at the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea, but failed to advance from 1/8 round.^[8]

After compşeting her university education, Shchukla emigrated to Turkey, and joined the fencing club in Adıyaman, southeastern Anatolia.^[9]

In 2016, she became champion at the Turkish Open Seniors Sabre Tournament.^[9] At the U23 European Fencing Championships 2017, she ranked fifth in the individual event,^[10] while she and her team won the gold medal.^[11][12] The same year, she became Turkish champion at the Turkish Seniors Fencing Championships.^[13] In 2018, she received the bronze medal at the U23 European Championships in Yerevan, Armenia ^[14][15][16] The same year at the 21st Flemish Open Fencing Championships in Ghent, Belgium, she won the silver medal in the individual event.^[17][18] At the 2019 Fencing World Cup's Satellite Plovdiv leg in Bulgaria, she became bronze medalist.^[19][20] She won the gold medal at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, Turkey.^[21]

Iryna Shchukla was born in Podolsk, Ukraine,^[1] on 13 October 1995.^[16]

After studying in the Netishyn Fencing School, she attended the state university Khmelnytskyi National University,^[1][8][2] to be educated in the field of human health.^[2]