Ukraine at the Olympics explained

Noc:UKR
Nocname:National Olympic Committee of Ukraine
Games:Olympics
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Rank:32
Gold:41
Silver:43
Bronze:76
See also: (1900–1912)
(1896–1912)
(1896–1912)
(1920–1936)
(1924–1936)
(1924–1936)
(1952–1988)
(1992)

Ukraine first participated at the Olympic Games as an independent nation in 1994, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games since then. The first athlete who won the gold medal for the yellow-blues was Oksana Baiul. However, for the first time the Ukrainian national flag and the Ukrainian state anthem sounded in 1992 when Oleg Kutscherenko from Luhansk Oblast won his gold medal in Barcelona as part of the so-called "Unified Team" of ex-Soviet republics.[1]

Previously, athletes of modern Ukraine mostly competed as part of the Russian Empire (1900–1912) and the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1988, and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian athletes were part of the Unified Team in 1992. Tatiana Gutsu became the best athlete of the Unified Team in 1992 from independent Ukraine.

Independently, Ukraine has won a total of 160 medals (151 medals at the Summer Games and 9 at the Winter Games) since it regained independence, with 41 of them gold, the second most amongst all post-Soviet states behind Russia. Gymnastics at summer and biathlon at winter are the nation's top medal-producing sports.

The National Olympic Committee of Ukraine was created in 1990 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1993.

Medal tables

See also: All-time Olympic Games medal count.

Medals by Summer Games

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1896–1912 as part of the,  (AUT) and
 Hungary (HUN)
as part of
1924–1936 as part of,  Poland (POL) and
did not participate
1952–1988 as part of the
as part of the
9 2 12 23 9
3 10 10 23 21
8 5 9 22 13
7 4 11 22 12
5 4 10 19 14
2 5 4 11 31
1 6 12 19 44
3 5 4 12 22
future event
Total 38 41 72 151 34

Medals by Winter Games

GamesAthleteswidth:3em; font-weight:bold;"width:3em; font-weight:bold;"width:3em; font-weight:bold;"TotalRank
as part of the and
1928–1936 as part of,  Poland (POL) and
1948–1952 did not participate
1956–1988 as part of the
as part of the
1 0 1 2 13
0 1 0 1 18
0 0 0 0 -
0 0 2 2 25
0 0 0 0 -
1 0 1 2 20
1 0 0 1 21
0 1 0 1 25
future event
Total 3 2 4 9 31

Medals by winter sport

List of medalists

Summer Olympics

MedalNameGamesSportEvent
Inessa KravetsWomen's triple jump
Wladimir KlitschkoMen's super heavyweight
Rustam SharipovMen's parallel bars
Lilia PodkopayevaWomen's artistic individual all-around
Lilia PodkopayevaWomen's floor exercise
Kateryna SerebrianskaWomen's rhythmic individual all-around
Yevhen Braslavets
Ihor Matviyenko
Men's 470 class
Timur TaymazovMen's 108 kg
Vyacheslav OliynykMen's Greco-Roman 90 kg
Lilia PodkopayevaWomen's balance beam
Inna Frolova
Svitlana Maziy
Dina Miftakhutdynova
Olena Ronzhyna
Women's quadruple sculls
Olena SadovnychaWomen's individual
Oleksandr KrykunMen's hammer throw
Oleksandr BagachMen's shot put
Inha BabakovaWomen's high jump
Oleh KyryukhinMen's light flyweight
Ihor Korobchynskyi
Oleh Kosyak
Hrihoriy Misyutin
Volodymyr Shamenko
Rustam Sharipov
Olexander Svitlichni
Yuri Yermakov
Men's artistic team all-around
Olena VitrychenkoWomen's rhythmic individual all-around
Olena Pakholchyk
Ruslana Taran
Women's 470 class
Denys HotfridMen's 99 kg
Elbrus TedeyevMen's freestyle 62 kg
Zaza ZazirovMen's freestyle 68 kg
Andriy KalashnykovMen's Greco-Roman 52 kg
Mykola MilchevMen's skeet
Yana KlochkovaWomen's 200 metre individual medley
Yana KlochkovaWomen's 400 metre individual medley
Nataliya Burdeyna
Olena Sadovnycha
Kateryna Serdyuk
Women's team
Andriy KotelnykMen's lightweight
Serhiy DotsenkoMen's welterweight
Serhiy Cherniavskiy
Sergiy Matveyev
Alexander Symonenko
Oleksandr Fedenko
Men's team pursuit
Olexandr Beresch
Valeriy Honcharov
Ruslan Mezentsev
Valeri Pereshkura
Olexander Svitlichni
Roman Zozulya
Men's artistic team all-around
Oxana TsyhulevaWomen's trampoline
Denys SylantyevMen's 200 metre butterfly
Yana KlochkovaWomen's 800 metre freestyle
Yevhen BuslovychMen's freestyle 58 kg
Davyd SaldadzeMen's Greco-Roman 97 kg
Roman ShchurenkoMen's long jump
Olena HovorovaWomen's triple jump
Volodymyr SydorenkoMen's flyweight
Serhiy DanylchenkoMen's bantamweight
Andriy FedchukMen's light heavyweight
Iryna YanovychWomen's sprint
Ganna Sorokina
Olena Zhupina
Women's synchronized 3 metre springboard
Oleksandr BereshMen's artistic individual all-around
Ruslan MashurenkoMen's 90 kg
Olena Pakholchyk
Ruslana Taran
Women's 470 class
Valeriy HoncharovMen's parallel bars
Yuri NikitinMen's trampoline
Olena KostevychWomen's 10 metre air pistol
Yana KlochkovaWomen's 200 metre individual medley
Yana KlochkovaWomen's 400 metre individual medley
Nataliya SkakunWomen's 63 kg
Elbrus TedeyevMen's freestyle 66 kg
Iryna MerleniWomen's freestyle 48 kg
Olena KrasovskaWomen's 100 metres hurdles
Roman HontyukMen's 81 kg
George Leonchuk
Rodion Luka
49er class
Ganna Kalinina
Svitlana Matevusheva
Ruslana Taran
Yngling class
Ihor RazoronovMen's 105 kg
Dmytro Hrachov
Viktor Ruban
Oleksandr Serdyuk
Men's team
Tetyana Tereshchuk-AntipovaWomen's 400 metres hurdles
Vita StyopinaWomen's high jump
Hanna Balabanova
Olena Cherevatova
Inna Osypenko
Tetyana Semykina
Women's K-4 500 metres
Vladyslav TretiakMen's sabre
Anna BessonovaWomen's rhythmic individual all-around
Women's tournament
Serhiy Biloushchenko
Serhiy Hryn
Oleh Lykov
Leonid Shaposhnykov
Men's quadruple sculls
Andriy SerdinovMen's 100 metre butterfly
Men's individual
Nataliya DobrynskaWomen's heptathlon
Vasyl LomachenkoMen's featherweight
Inna OsypenkoWomen's K-1 500 metres
Olha Kharlan
Olena Khomrova
Halyna Pundyk
Olha Zhovnir
Women's team sabre
Oleksandr PetrivMen's 25 metre rapid fire pistol
Artur AyvazyanMen's 50 metre rifle prone
Iryna LishchynskaWomen's 1500 metres
Jury SukhorukovMen's 50 metre rifle three positions
Andriy StadnikMen's freestyle 66 kg
Olena AntonovaWomen's discus throw
Nataliya TobiasWomen's 1500 metres
Vyacheslav GlazkovMen's super heavyweight
Yuriy ChebanMen's C-1 500 metres
Lesya KalytovskaWomen's individual pursuit
Illya Kvasha
Oleksiy Pryhorov
Men's synchronized 3 metre springboard
Oleksandr VorobiovMen's rings
Anna BessonovaWomen's rhythmic individual all-around
Roman HontyukMen's 81 kg
Taras DankoMen's freestyle 84 kg
Armen VardanyanMen's Greco-Roman 66 kg
Iryna MerleniWomen's freestyle 48 kg
Vasyl LomachenkoMen's lightweight
Oleksandr UsykMen's heavyweight
Yuriy ChebanMen's C-1 200 metres
Yana ShemyakinaWomen's épée
Yana Dementyeva
Nataliya Dovhodko
Anastasiya Kozhenkova
Kateryna Tarasenko
Women's quadruple sculls
Denys BerinchykMen's light welterweight
Inna OsypenkoWomen's K-1 200 metres
Inna OsypenkoWomen's K-1 500 metres
Valeriy AndriytsevMen's freestyle 96 kg
Olesya Povh
Hrystyna Stuy
Mariya Ryemyen
Yelyzaveta Bryzhina
Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
Olha SaladuhaWomen's triple jump
Taras ShelestyukMen's welterweight
Oleksandr HvozdykMen's light heavyweight
Olha KharlanWomen's sabre
Ihor RadivilovMen's vault
Olena KostevychWomen's 10 metre air pistol
Olena KostevychWomen's 25 metre pistol
Yulia ParatovaWomen's 53 kg
Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
Yuriy ChebanMen's C-1 200 metres
Oleg VerniaievMen's parallel bars
Olha Kharlan
Alina Komashchuk
Olena Kravatska
Olena Voronina
Women's team sabre
Oleg VerniaievMen's artistic individual all-around
Pavlo TymoshchenkoMen's individual
Serhiy KulishMen's 10 m air rifle
Zhan BeleniukMen's Greco-Roman 85 kg
Bohdan BondarenkoMen's high jump
Dmytro Ianchuk
Taras Mishchuk
Men's C-2 1000 m
Olha KharlanWomen's sabre
Ganna RizatdinovaWomen's rhythmic individual all-around
Men's 1500 metre freestyle
Women's 55 kg
Women's C-2 500 metres
Men's middleweight
Women's sprint
Mixed 10 metre air pistol team
Men's 800 metre freestyle
Women's singles
Women's freestyle 68 kg
Women's duet
Women's freestyle 62 kg
Women's C-1 200 metres
Men's 75 kg
Women's team
Women's high jump
Olha Kharlan
Alina Komashchuk
Olena Kravatska
Yuliya Bakastova
Women's team sabre
Women's high jump
Men's 80 kg
Serhiy KulishMen's 50 metre rifle three positions
Illia KovtunMen's parallel bars
Women's C-2 500 metres
Iryna KoliadenkoWomen's freestyle 62 kg
Olha KharlanWomen's sabre
Women's high jump
Men's hammer throw

Winter Olympics

MedalNameGamesSportEvent
Oksana BaiulLadies' singles
Valentina TserbeWomen's sprint
Olena PetrovaWomen's individual
Lilia EfremovaWomen's sprint
Elena Grushina
Ruslan Goncharov
Ice dancing
Vita Semerenko
Juliya Dzhyma
Valj Semerenko
Olena Pidhrushna
Women's relay
Vita SemerenkoWomen's sprint
Oleksandr AbramenkoMen's aerials
Oleksandr AbramenkoMen's aerials

Flag bearers

See main article: List of flag bearers for Ukraine at the Olympics.

Olympic participants

Summer Olympics

Sport19962000200420082012201620202024Years
6 6 6 5 6 4 4 2 8
2 2 2 2 9 8 2 7
44 55 51 70 78 65 44 25 8
3 3 2 2 2 2 1 7
12 align=center colspan="7"1
7 11 6 7 7 5 5 3 8
bgcolor=grey colspan="7"3 1
13 11 7 6 2 9 11 9 8
12 14 16 16 10 7 5 4 8
6 9 8 9 9 7 6 9 8
align=center colspan="3"4 5 5 2 4
6 10 10 10 8 10 6 8 8
align=center colspan="7"22 1
16 16 22 18 13 15 12 12 8
align=center colspan="2"15 align=center colspan="5"1
3 6 8 9 10 7 7 5 8
bgcolor=grey colspan="6"3 bgcolor=grey1
1 3 1 3 4 3 1 3 8
20 12 10 10 21 8 2 6 8
12 11 10 6 4 3 align=center colspan="2"6
9 6 11 12 8 5 6 6 8
bgcolor=grey colspan="6"2 1
13 25 27 23 14 7 9 5 8
1 3 4 2 3 36
bgcolor=grey1 2 align=center colspan="3"2
2 2 4 2 6 4 6 7
bgcolor=grey2 2 3 2 1 1 6
12 align=center colspan="7"1
13 align=center colspan="7"1
7 10 9 9 9 8 2 1 8
17 16 16 16 13 11 10 9 8
Total 231 230 240 243 238 206 155 140

Winter Olympics

Sport19941998200220062010201420182022Years
2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 8
10 10 11 10 11 11 11 10 8
4 2 5 align=center colspan="4"1 4
1 10 6 11 8 8 4 7 8
10 10 11 11 7 6 4 6 8
3 7 3 7 6 7 3 5 8
align=center colspan="2"22 align=center colspan="5"1
3 6 4 6 6 6 6 6 8
1 align=center colspan="2"2 1 1 1 1 7
2 1 1 1 2 5
bgcolor=grey colspan="2"align=center colspan="4"1 1 2
1 3 1 1 3 align=center colspan="2"3 6
bgcolor=greyalign=center colspan="3"2 2 1 1 4
2 4 2 align=center colspan="5"3
Total 37 56 68 52 47 43 33 45

Multiple medal winners

AthleteSexSportYearsGamesGoldSilverBronzeTotal
F 2000–2004 Summer 4 1 0 5
F 2008–2024 Summer 2 1 3 6
F 1996 Summer 2 1 0 3
M 2004–2016 Summer 2 0 1 3
M 2008–2012 Summer 2 0 0 2
F 2004–2012 Summer 1 2 1 4
M 2016–2024 Summer 1 1 1 3
M 2000–2008 Summer 1 1 0 2
M 2006–2022 Winter 1 1 0 2
F 2016–2024 Summer 1 1 0 2
F 2016–2024 Summer 1 1 0 2
M 2016, 2024 Summer 1 1 0 2
M 2020–2024 Summer 1 1 0 2
F 2004–2024 Summer 1 0 3 4
M 1996 Summer 1 0 1 2
M 1996–2004 Summer 1 0 1 2
F 2004–2012 Summer 1 0 1 2
M 2004–2016 Summer 1 0 1 2
F 2010–2018 Winter 1 0 1 2
F 2020–2024 Summer 1 0 1 2
F 2020–2024 Summer 0 21 3
M 2012–2024 Summer 0 2 0 2
M 2020–2024 Summer 0 2 0 2
F 2020–2024 Summer 0 2 0 2
F 1996–2004 Summer 0 1 2 3
M 1996–2000 Summer 0 1 1 2
F 1996–2000 Summer 0 1 1 2
M 2000 Summer 0 1 1 2
M 2004–2008 Summer 0 1 1 2
M 2016–2024 Summer 0 1 1 2
F 2020–2024 Summer 0 1 1 2
F 2004–2008 Summer 0 0 2 2
F 2016–2020 Summer 0 0 2 2
F 2020 Summer 0 0 2 2

List of Soviet medalists

List of Soviet medalists who represented Soviet clubs out of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and recognized by the Ukrainian NOC.[2]

Summer Olympics

MedalNameGamesSportEvent
Nina BocharovaWomen's balance beam
Maria GorokhovskayaWomen's all around (ind.)
Soviet teamWomen's all around (2 out of 8)
Viktor ChukarinMen's vault
Viktor ChukarinMen's pommel horse
Viktor ChukarinMen's all around (ind.)
Soviet teamMen's all around (2 out of 8)
Yakiv PunkinMen's Greco-Roman
Nina BocharovaWomen's all around (ind.)
Maria GorokhovskayaWomen's balance beam
Maria GorokhovskayaWomen's floor exercise
Maria GorokhovskayaWomen's uneven bars
Maria GorokhovskayaWomen's vault
Soviet teamWomen's portable apparatus (2 out of 8)
Viktor ChukarinMen's parallel bars
Viktor ChukarinMen's rings
Heorhiy Zhylin
Ihor Yemchuk
Men's double sculls
Dmytro LeonkinMen's rings
Larisa LatyninaWomen's floor exercise
Larisa LatyninaWomen's vault
Larisa LatyninaWomen's all around (ind.)
Soviet teamWomen's all around (2 out of 6)
Viktor ChukarinMen's parallel bars
Viktor ChukarinMen's all around (ind.)
Boris ShakhlinMen's pommel horse
Soviet teamMen's all around (3 out of 6)
Soviet teamMen's all around (1 out of 3)
Vitali RomanenkoMen's running deer
Ihor RybakMen's lightweight
Larisa LatyninaWomen's uneven bars
Viktor ChukarinMen's floor exercise
Yuri TitovMen's horizontal bar
Soviet teamMen's relay (1 out of 4)
Soviet teamWomen's portable apparatus (2 out of 6)
Viktor ChukarinMen's pommel horse
Yuri TitovMen's all around (ind.)
Yuri TitovMen's all vault
Soviet UnionMen's coxed pair (2 out of 3)
Nadezhda KonyayevaWomen's javelin throw
Soviet UnionMen's team sabre (1 out of 5)
Mikhail ShakhovMen's freestyle (bantamweight)
Larisa LatyninaWomen's all around (ind.)
Larisa LatyninaWomen's floor exercise
Polina AstakhovaWomen's uneven bars
Margarita NikolaevaWomen's vault
Soviet UnionWomen's all around (3 out of 6)
Boris ShakhlinMen's all around (ind.)
Boris ShakhlinMen's parallel bars
Boris ShakhlinMen's pommel horse
Boris ShakhlinMen's vault
Vera KrepkinaWomen's long jump
Lyudmila ShevtsovaWomen's 800 metres
Volodymyr HolubnychyMen's 20 km walk
Ivan BohdanMen's Greco-Roman (heavyweight)
Larisa LatyninaWomen's balance beam
Larisa LatyninaWomen's uneven bars
Polina AstakhovaWomen's floor exercise
Boris ShakhlinMen's rings
Yuri TitovMen's floor exercise
Soviet UnionMen's all around (2 out of 6)
Valeriy BrumelMen's high jump
Soviet UnionMen's relay (1 out of 4)
Vladimir SynyavskyMen's freestyle (lightweight)
Soviet UnionMen's (1 out of 12)
Larisa LatyninaWomen's vault
Polina AstakhovaWomen's all around (ind.)
Yuri TitovMen's all around (ind.)
Boris ShakhlinMen's horizontal bar
Igor Ter-OvanesyanMen's long jump
Soviet UnionMen's track (pursuit, 1 out of 4)
Larisa LatyninaWomen's floor exercise
Polina AstakhovaWomen's uneven bars
Soviet UnionWomen's all around (2 out of 6)
Boris ShakhlinMen's horizontal bar
Soviet UnionMen's (3 out of 12)
Leonid ZhabotinskyMen's heavyweight
Grigory KrissMen's épée (ind.)
Galina ProzumenshchikovaWomen's breaststroke
Soviet UnionMen's C-2 (1 out of 2)
Soviet UnionMen's K-4 (1 out of 4)
Larisa LatyninaWomen's vault
Larisa LatyninaWomen's all around (ind.)
Polina AstakhovaWomen's floor exercise
Boris ShakhlinMen's all around (ind.)
Yuri TitovMen's horizontal bar
Soviet UnionMen's all around (2 out of 6)
Soviet UnionWomen's (2 out of 12)
Soviet UnionMen's (1 out of 12)
Georgy ProkopenkoMen's breaststroke
Vladlen TrostyanskyMen's Greco-Roman (bantamweight)
Larisa LatyninaWomen's balance beam
Larisa LatyninaWomen's uneven bars
Polina AstakhovaWomen's all around (ind.)
Boris ShakhlinMen's rings
Ivan BelyayevMen's steeplechase
Volodymyr HolubnychyMen's walk (20 km)
Soviet UnionMen's medley relay (1 out of 4)
Volodymyr HolubnychyMen's walk (20 km)
Soviet UnionMen's (7 out of 12)
Leonid ZhabotinskyMen's heavyweight
Boris GurevichMen's freestyle (87 kg)
Valentin MankinMen's Finn
Soviet UnionMen's team sabre (1 out of 5)
Aleksandr Shaparenko
Vladimir Morozov
Men's C-2
Grigory KrissMen's épée
Soviet UnionMen's team épée (2 out of 5)
Soviet UnionMen's team foil (2 out of 5)
Soviet UnionMen's (2 out of 3)
Vladimir BelyaevMen's light heavyweight
Aleksandr ShaparenkoMen's K-1
Soviet UnionMen's (1 out of 11)
Pavel LednevMen's (ind.)
Soviet UnionMen's (1 out of 12)
Valentina KozyrWomen's high jump
Soviet UnionMen's medley relay (2 out of 4)
Vladimir MusalimovMen's welterweight
Soviet UnionMen's eights (2 out of 9)
Valeriy BorzovMen's sprint (100 metres)
Valeriy BorzovMen's sprint (200 metres)
Mykola AvilovMen's decathlon
Anatoliy BondarchukMen's hammer throw
Valentin Mankin
Vitali Dyrdyra
Men's Tempest
Aleksandr ShaparenkoMen's sprint (K-1)
Soviet UnionMen's spring (K-4) (3 out of 4)
Soviet UnionMen's (1 out of 11)
Yakiv ZheleznyakMen's running target
Soviet UnionMen's (2 out of 12)
Soviet UnionWomen's sprint (K-2, 1 out of 2)
Yulia RyabchinskayaWomen's sprint (K-1)
Soviet UnionMen's (2 out of 3)
Vladimir Semenets
Igor Tselovalnykov
Men's track (tandem)
Yevhen ArzhanovMen's track (800 metres)
Soviet UnionMen's relay (4×100 metres, 1 out of 4)
Volodymyr HolubnychyMen's 20 kilometres walk
Leonid LytvynenkoMen's decathlon
Soviet UnionMen's foil (2 out of 5)
Boris OnischenkoMen's
Boris MelnikMen's free rifle three positions
Soviet UnionMen's (7 out of 19)
Soviet UnionMen's épée (2 out of 5)
Soviet UnionMen's (2 out of 12)
Pavel LednevMen's
Anatoliy NovikovMen's half middleweight

Winter Olympics

MedalNameGamesSportEvent
Ivan BiakovMen's relay
Alexander BatyukMen's relay
Viktor PetrenkoMen's singles
Viktor PetrenkoMen's singles
Alexei ZhitnikMen's tournament

The most prominent

The most prominent
Olympianbgcolor=#f7f6a8 bgcolor=#dce5e5 bgcolor=#ffdab9 Total
Larisa Latynina (gymnastics)95317
Boris Shakhlin (gymnastics)74213
Viktor Chukarin (gymnastics)73111
Polina Astakhova (gymnastics)52310
Maria Gorokhovskaya (gymnastics)2507
Nina Bocharova (gymnastics)2204
Volodymyr Holubnychy (athletics)2114
Aleksandr Shaparenko (canoeing)2103
Valeriy Borzov (athletics)2103
Yuri Poyarkov (volleyball)2013
Margarita Nikolaeva (gymnastics)2002
Leonid Zhabotinsky (weightlifting)2002

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20210430003952/https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/ukrajinsky-sport/30127132.html «Незалежний» український спорт: від першого гімну на Олімпіаді до наймолодшого чемпіона Європи
  2. http://noc-ukr.org/olympic/winners/gold/ Olympic champions (Олімпійські чемпіони)