Hand left-handed Club Dynamo Kyiv Height 1.95 m Weapon Épée | Weight 88 kg (194 lb) FIE Ranking ranking (archive) Retired 2009 | |
Full name Dmytro Oleksandrovych Chumak Born 29 January 1980 (age 37) ( 1980-01-29 ) | ||
Dmytro Chumak (Ukrainian: Дмитро Олександрович Чумак; born 29 January 1980) is a Ukrainian épée fencer.
Career
Chumak won a bronze medal at the 2005 European Championships in Zalaegerszeg after being defeated 13–15 in the semi-finals by Poland's Tomasz Motyka. Along with Dmytro Karyuchenko, Maksym Khvorost and Bohdan Nikishyn, he earned the bronze medal in the épée team event of the 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Hungary in the bronze medal match.
Chumak competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In the first round he defeated Venezuela's Rubén Limardo, who would become Olympic champion at the 2012 London Olympics, but was stopped in the table of 16 by South Korea's Jung Jin-sun. In the team event, Ukraine lost in the quarter-finals to Poland and finished 7th after the qualification rounds.
Chumak also coaches at the Fencing Academy of Westchester in Hawthorne, NY.