Olena Hrachykivna Akopyan (Ukrainian: Олена Грачиківна Акопян, born 4 October 1969)[1] is a Paralympic swimmer from Ukraine competing mainly in category S5 events.

[2] At the 2000 Summer Paralympics, Akopyan again won silver medals in the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle including, breaking the Paralympic record in the 50m freestyle first heat only to see Hess break it in the second heat and then set a world record in the final.

Sheh also picked up a bronze medal in the 200m freestyle, behind both Perales and Hess, and was a member of the Ukrainian 4x50m medley squad that finished fourth.

At the 2008 Summer Paralympics, Akopyan broke the World record in the 50m butterfly only to see both China's Fuying Jiang and Russia's Anastasia Diodorova swim quicker in the final leaving her with the bronze medal.

Akopyan was disabled as a teenager as a result of a knife attack in Belgorod, where she had moved to attend a music school.