List of Ukrainian sportspeople explained

This is a list of notable Ukrainian sportspeople.

American football

• Igor Olshansky – American football

Archery

• Nataliya Burdeyna – Olympic silver medalist
• Dmytro Hrachov – Olympic bronze medalist
• Viktor Ruban – Olympic champion
• Olena Sadovnycha – Olympic silver medalist
• Kateryna Serdyuk – Olympic silver medalist
• Oleksandr Serdyuk – Olympic bronze medalist
• Victor Sidoruk
• Stanislav Zabrodsky

Athletics

• Olena Antonova
• Inha Babakova
• Oleksandr Bagach
• Bohdan Bondarenko
• Yelyzaveta Bryzhina
• Sergey Bubka – Olympic champion
• Nataliya Dobrynska – Olympic champion
• Olena Hovorova
• Olena Krasovska – Olympic silver medalist
• Inessa Kravets – Olympic champion
• Oleksandr Krykun
• Iryna Lishchynska
• Faina Melnik – 11 world records; Olympic discus throw champion
• Nadiya Olizarenko
• Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, sprinter, world 100-m & 200-m champion
• Olesya Povh
• Oleksandr Pyatnytsya
• Mariya Ryemyen
• Olha Saladuha
• Roman Shchurenko
• Hrystyna Stuy
• Vita Styopina
• Kateryna Tabashnyk (born 1994), high jumper
• Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova
• Nataliya Tobias
• Denys Yurchenko

Baseball

• Bill Cristall
• Reuben Ewing
• Izzy Goldstein

Basketball

• Alexander Belostenny
• Sergiy Gladyr
• Natalya Klimova
• Viacheslav Kravtsov
• Raisa Kurvyakova
• Alex Len
• Slava Medvedenko
• Oleksiy Pecherov
• Anatoli Polivoda
• Vitaly Potapenko
• Lyudmila Rogozhina
  • Anton Shoutvin Marina Tkachenko
• Vladimir Tkachenko
• Alexander Volkov
• Tetiana Zakharova-Nadyrova

Biathlon

• Olexander Bilanenko
• Andriy Deryzemlya
• Juliya Dzhyma – Olympic champion
• Lilia Efremova – Olympic bronze medalist
• Pavlo Ishchenko – 2x European Amateur Boxing Championships medalist, and European Games medalist
• Oksana Khvostenko
• Nina Lemesh
• Olena Petrova – Olympic silver medalist
• Olena Pidhrushna – Olympic champion
• Serhiy Sednev
• Serhiy Semenov
• Valj Semerenko – Olympic champion
• Vita Semerenko – Olympic champion
• Valentina Tserbe-Nessina – Olympic bronze medalist
• Tetyana Vodopyanova
• Olena Zubrilova

Boxing

• Denys Berinchyk
• Serhiy Danylchenko
• Serhiy Dotsenko – Olympic silver medalist
• Andriy Fedchuk
• Vyacheslav Glazkov
• Oleksandr Hvozdyk
• Oleg Kiryukhin
• Vitali Klitschko – Professional boxer
• Wladimir Klitschko – Olympic champion, professional boxer
• Andreas Kotelnik – Olympic silver medalist
• Ihor Korobchynskyi
• Vasyl Lomachenko – Olympic champion
• Grigory Misutin
• Taras Shelestyuk
• Volodymyr Sydorenko
• Oleksandr Usyk – Olympic champion

Canoeing

• Hanna Balabanova
• Yuriy Cheban – Olympic champion
• Olena Cherevatova
• Inna Osypenko-Radomska – Olympic champion
• Tetyana Semykina

Cycling

• Yana Belomoyna
• Serhiy Cherniavskiy
• Oleksandr Fedenko
• Lesya Kalytovska
• Sergiy Matveyev
• Hanna Solovey
• Alexander Symonenko
• Iryna Yanovych

Cross-country skiing

• Alexander Batyuk
• Valentina Shevchenko
• Iryna Taranenko-Terelia

Diving

• Illya Kvasha
• Oleksiy Pryhorov
• Ganna Sorokina
• Olena Zhupina

Equestrian

• Vera Misevich

Fencing

• Vadim Gutzeit – Olympic champion
• Olha Kharlan – Olympic champion
• Olena Khomrova – Olympic champion
• Halyna Pundyk – Olympic champion
• Yana Shemyakina – Olympic champion
• Vladyslav Tretiak
• Olha Zhovnir – Olympic champion

Figure skating

• Oksana Baiul – Olympic champion
• Alexei Beletski – Olympican
• Oleksii Bychenko – 2016 European silver medallist, Olympian
• Elena Grushina – Olympic bronze medalist
• Ruslan Goncharov – Olympic bronze medalist
• Natalia Gudina – Olympian
• Viktor Petrenko – Olympic champion

Football

• Yevhen Konoplyanka
• Andriy Oberemko
• Serhii Rebrov
• Andriy Shevchenko
• Anatoliy Tymoshchuk
• Andriy Voronin

Freestyle skiing

• Olha Volkova

Gymnastics

• Alexander Beresch
• Anna Bessonova
• Nina Bocharova
• Viktor Chukarin
• Olena Dvornichenko
• Valeri Goncharov
• Dmytro Leonkin
• Tatiana Lysenko – 2x Olympic champion
• Valeria Maksyuta
• Yuri Nikitin
• Katerina Pisetsky
• Lilia Podkopayeva
• Ihor Radivilov
• Kateryna Serebrianska
• Rustam Sharipov
• Olena Vitrychenko
• Oleksandr Vorobiov
• Roman Zozulya

Handball

• Anastasiia Pidpalova
• Nataliya Borysenko
• Ganna Burmystrova
• Iryna Honcharova
• Nataliya Lyapina
• Galyna Markushevska
• Olena Radchenko
• Oxana Rayhel
• Lyudmyla Shevchenko
• Tetyana Shynkarenko
• Ganna Siukalo
• Olena Tsyhytsia
• Maryna Vergelyuk
• Olena Yatsenko
• Larysa Zaspa

Ice hockey

• Ivan Pravilov (1963–2012), ice hockey coach, arrested for sexual abuse of teenage student, committed suicide by hanging in prison

Judo

• Roman Hontyuk
• Ruslan Mashurenko

Luge

• Natalia Yakushenko

Modern pentathlon

• Victoria Tereshchuk

Rowing

• Serhiy Biloushchenko
• Yana Dementyeva – Olympic champion
• Nataliya Dovhodko – Olympic champion
• Inna Frolova – Olympic silver medalist
• Serhiy Hryn
• Anastasiya Kozhenkova – Olympic champion
• Oleh Lykov
• Svitlana Maziy – Olympic silver medalist
• Dina Miftakhutdynova – Olympic silver medalist
• Olena Ronzhyna – Olympic silver medalist
• Leonid Shaposhnykov
• Kateryna Tarasenko – Olympic champion

Rugby league

• Ian Rubin

Sailing

• Yevhen Braslavets – Olympic champion
• Ganna Kalinina
• George Leonchuk
• Rodion Luka
• Valentin Mankin – Olympic champion, only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes
• Svitlana Matevusheva
• Ihor Matviyenko – Olympic champion
• Olena Pakholchyk
• Ruslana Taran

Shooting

• Artur Ayvazyan – Olympic champion
• Mykola Milchev – Olympic champion
• Olena Kostevych – Olympic champion
• Oleksandr Petriv – Olympic champion
• Jury Sukhorukov

Short track speed skating

• Vladimir Grigorev

Speed skating

• Oleg Goncharenko

Swimming

• Olga Beresnyeva
• Tatyana Devyatova
• Sergey Fesenko, Sr. – Olympic champion
• Yuriy Hromak
• Pavlo Khnykin
• Olga Kirichenko
• Yana Klochkova – Olympic champion
• Serhiy Krasyuk
• Lenny Krayzelburg – 4x Olympic champion
• Yelena Kruglova
• Oleg Lisogor
• Maxim Podoprigora
• Georgy Prokopenko – Olympic champion
• Galina Prozumenshchikova – Olympic champion
• Volodymyr Raskatov
• Andriy Serdinov
• Oleksandr Sydorenko – Olympic champion
• Denys Sylantyev
• Volodymyr Tkachenko
• Marina Yurchenya

Table tennis

• Marina Kravchenko

Tennis

• Alona Bondarenko
• Kateryna Bondarenko
• Alexandr Dolgopolov
• Olga Fridman
• Julia Glushko
• Andriy Medvedev
• Sergiy Stakhovsky
• Elina Svitolina

Volleyball

• Volodymyr Byelyayev
• Volodymyr Ivanov
• Valeriy Kryvov
• Yevhen Lapinsky
• Fedir Lashchonov
• Viktor Mikhalchuk
• Oleg Moliboga
• Yury Panchenko
• Anatoliy Polishchuk
• Yuriy Poyarkov
• Eduard Sibiryakov
• Oleksandr Sorokalet
• Borys Tereshchuk
• Yury Vengerovsky

Water polo

• Aleksei Barkalov
• Viktor Berendyuga
• Boris Goykhman
• Andriy Kovalenko
• Mikhail Ryzhak
• Nikolai Smirnov
• Dmitri Stratan
• Vladimir Zhmudsky

Weightlifting

• Nataliya Davydova
• Denys Hotfrid
• Yuliya Kalina
• Moisei Kas’ianik – world champion
• Olha Korobka
• Igor Olshanetskyi – Ukrainian-born Israeli Olympic weightlifter
• Ihor Razoronov
• Igor Rybak – Olympic champion
• Nataliya Skakun – Olympic champion
• Timur Taymazov – Olympic champion
• Oleksiy Torokhtiy – Olympic champion
• Eduard Weitz – Ukrainian-born Israeli Olympic weightlifter

Wrestling

• Valeriy Andriytsev
• Yevhen Buslovych
• Taras Danko
• Vasyl Fedoryshyn
• Grigoriy Gamarnik – world champion
• Samuel Gerson – Olympic silver
• Andriy Kalashnykov
• Iryna Merleni – Olympic champion
• Vyacheslav Oliynyk – Olympic champion
• Yakiv Punkin
• Davyd Saldadze
• Andriy Stadnik
• Elbrus Tedeyev – Olympic champion
• Armen Vardanyan
• Nik Zagranitchni – Israeli Olympic wrestler
• Zaza Zazirov

See also

• Ukraine at the Olympics
• Sport in Ukraine
• List of people born in Ukraine