Ukraine at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Gold

Inessa Kravets — Athletics, Women's Triple Jump

Wladimir Klitschko — Boxing, Men's Super Heavyweight

Rustam Sharipov — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars

Lilia Podkopayeva — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual

Lilia Podkopayeva — Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercises

Kateryna Serebrianska — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around

Yevhen Braslavets and Ihor Matviyenko — Sailing, Men's 470 Team Competition

Timur Taymazov — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight (108 kg)

Vyacheslav Oleynyk — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight (90 kg)

Silver

Lilia Podkopayeva — Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam

Inna Frolova, Svitlana Maziy, Dina Myftakhutdinova, and Olena Ronzhyna — Rowing, Women's Quadruple Sculls

Bronze

Olena Sadovnycha — Archery, Women's Individual Competition

Oleksandr Bahach — Athletics, Men's Shot Put

Oleksandr Krykun — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw

Inha Babakova — Athletics, Women's High Jump

Oleg Kiryukhin — Boxing, Men's Light Flyweight

Ihor Korobchynskyi, Oleh Kosyak, Hryhoriy Misyutyn, Volodymyr Shamenko, Rustam Sharipov, Oleksandr Svitlychnyi, and Yuri Yermakov — Gymnastics, Men's Team Combined Exercises

Olena Vitrychenko — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around

Olena Pakholchik and Ruslana Taran — Sailing, Women's 470 Team Competition

Denys Hotfrid — Weightlifting, Men's 99 kg

Andriy Kalashnykov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight (52 kg)

Elbrus Tedeyev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Featherweight (62 kg)

Zaza Zazirov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Lightweight (68 kg)

Archery

Women's Individual Competition:

Olena Sadovnycha → Bronze Medal Match, Bronze Medal (5-1)

Lina Herasymenko → Round of 32, 23rd place (1-1)

Natalya Bilukha → Round of 64, 55th place (0-1)

Men's Individual Competition:

Stanislav Zabrodsky → Round of 16, 13th place (2-1)

Valeriy Yevetsky → Round of 32, 31st place (1-1)

Oleksandr Yatsenko → Round of 64, 57th place (0-1)

Women's Team Competition:

Sadovnycha, Herasymenko, and Bilukha → Quarterfinal, 5th place (1-1)

Men's Team Competition:

Zabrodsky, Yevetsky, and Yatsenko → Quarterfinal, 7th place (1-1)

Men's Competition

Men's 100 metres

Serhiy Osovych

Heat — 10.29

Quarterfinals — 10.38 (→ did not advance)

Kostyantyn Rurak

Heat — 10.37

Quarterfinals — 10.47 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 metres

Vladyslav Dolohodin

Heat — 20.57

Quarterfinals — 20.65 (→ did not advance)

Men's 1,500 metres

Andriy Bulkovskiy

Heat — 3:53.20 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4×100 metres Relay

Kostyantyn Rurak, Serhiy Osovych, Oleh Kramarenko, and Vladyslav Dolohodin

Heat — 38.90

Semifinals — 38.56

Final — 38.55 (→ 4th place)

Men's Marathon

Pyotro Sarafinyuk — 2:20.37 (→ 43rd place)

Men's 50 km Walk

Vitaliy Popovych — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's High Jump

Vyacheslav Tyrtyshnik

Qualification — 2.26m (→ did not advance, 16th place)

Men's Long Jump

Vitaliy Kyrylenko

Qualification — 7.77m (→ did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump

Volodymyr Kravchenko

Qualification — 16.90m

Final — 16.62m (→ 10th place)

Men's Pole Vault

Sergey Bubka

Qualification — did not start (→ no ranking)

Vasiliy Bubka

Qualification — no mark (→ no ranking)

Men's Decathlon

Vitaliy Kolpakov

Final Result — 8025 points (→ 22nd place)

Lev Lobodin

Final Result — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's Shot Put

Aleksandr Bagach

Qualification — 20.23m

Final — 20.75m (→ Bronze Medal)

Roman Virastyuk

Qualification — 19.81m

Final — 20.45m (→ 6th place)

Oleksandr Klymenko

Qualification — 19.45m

Final — no mark (→ no ranking)

Men's Discus Throw

Vitaliy Sidorov

Qualification — 63.42m

Final — 63.78m (→ 7th place)

Andriy Kokhanovskiy

Qualification — 57.90m (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

Oleksiy Krykun

Qualification — 75.78m

Final — 80.02m (→ Bronze Medal)

Andriy Skvaruk

Qualification — 77.48m

Final — 79.92m (→ 4th place)

Women's Competition

Women's 100 metres

Zhanna Pintusevych

Iryna Pukha

Women's 200 metres

Zhanna Pintusevych

Viktoriya Fomenko

Women's 400 metres

Iana Manuylova

Olena Rurak

Heat — 52.92 (→ did not advance)

Women's 4x400 metres Relay

Viktoriya Fomenko, Lyudmyla Koshchey, Yana Manuylova, and Olha Moroz

Qualification — 3:28.16 (→ did not advance)

Women's 400 m Hurdles

Tetyana Tereshchuk

Qualification — 55.82

Semifinals — 55.34 (→ did not advance)

Women's Long Jump

Iryna Chekhovtsova

Qualification — 6.70m

Final — 6.97m (→ 5th place)

Inessa Kravets

Qualification — NM (→ did not advance)

Viktoriya Vershynina

Qualification — NM (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

Inha Babakova

Qualification — 1.93m

Final — 2.01m (→ Bronze Medal)

Vita Styopina

Qualification — 1.85m (→ did not advance)

Women's Triple Jump

Inessa Kravets

Qualification — 14.57m

Final — 15.33m (→ Gold Medal)

Olena Hovorova

Qualification — 14.60m

Final — 14.09m (→ 10th place)

Olena Khlusovych

Qualification — 14.38m

Final — 13.81m (→ 12th place)

Women's Discus Throw

Olena Antonova

Qualification — 57.92m (→ did not advance)

Women's Shot Put

Vita Pavlysh

Qualification — 19.04m

Final — 19.30m (→ 4th place)

Valentyna Fedyushyna

Qualification — 19.22m

Final — 17.99m (→ 12th place)

Women's Marathon

Lyubov Klochko — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's 10 km Walk

Tatyana Ragozina — 46:25 (→ 30th place)

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

Oleg Kiryukhin → Bronze Medal

First Round — Defeated Abdul Rashid Qambrani (Pakistan), 17-3

Second Round — Defeated Beibis Mendoza (Colombia), 18-6

Quarterfinals — Defeated Albert Guardado (United States), 19-14

Semifinals — Lost to Daniel Petrov (Bulgaria), 8-17

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

Serhiy Kovganko

First Round — Defeated Darwin Angeles (Honduras), 12-6

Second Round — Lost to Bulat Jumadilov (Kazakhstan), 4-21

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

Yevheniy Shestakov

First Round — Lost to Serafim Todorov (Bulgaria), 4-11

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

Sergiy Dzindziruk

First Round — Defeated Parkpoom Jangphonak (Thailand), 20-10

Second Round — Lost to Hasan Al (Denmark), 4-10

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

Serhiy Horodnichov

First Round — Defeated Albert Eromosele (Nigeria), 18-4

Second Round — Lost to Alfredo Duvergel (Cuba), 2-15

Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

Rostyslav Zaulychnyi

First Round — Lost to Timur Ibragimov (Uzbekistan), 3-7

Men's Super Heavyweight (> 91 kg)

Wladimir Klitschko → Gold Medal

First Round — Bye

Second Round — Defeated Lawrence Clay-Bey (United States), 10-8

Quarterfinals — Defeated Attila Levin (Sweden), referee stopped contest in first round

Semifinals — Defeated Alexei Lezin (Russia), 4-1

Final — Defeated Paea Wolfgramm (Tonga), 7-3

Road Competition

Women's Individual Road Race

Natalya Kishchuk

Final — 02:37:06 (→ 30th place)

Track Competition

Men's Points Race

Vasyl Yakovlev

Final — 24 points (→ 4th place)

Diving

Men's 3 m Springboard

Roman Volod'kov

Preliminary Heat — 359.85

Semi Final — 210.30

Final — 382.83 (→ 11th place)

Maksym Lapyn

Preliminary Heat — 328.23 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Women's 3 m Springboard

Olena Zhupina

Preliminary Heat — 286.47

Semi Final — 209.55

Final — 297.72 (→ 5th place)

Iryna Pissareva

Preliminary Heat — 269.43

Semi Final — 211.23

Final — 236.79 (→ 12th place)

Women's 10 m Platform

Olena Zhupina

Preliminary Heat — 280.11

Semi Final — 171.24

Final — 265.77 (→ 6th place)

Svitlana Serbina

Preliminary Heat — 244.05

Semi Final — 165.06 (→ did not advance, 14th place)

Fencing

Six fencers, four men and two women, represented Ukraine in 1996.

Men's foil

Serhiy Holubytskiy

Oleksiy Bryzhalov

Men's sabre

Vadym Huttsait

Volodymyr Kaliuzhniy

Women's épée

Viktoriya Titova

Yeva Vybornova

Modern pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition:

Heorhiy Chymerys — 5154 pts (→ 24th place)

Rowing

Rowing events, results, and competitors:

Men's single sculls – 19th place

Oleksandr Khimich

Men's quadruple sculls – 7th place

Oleksandr Marchenko, Oleksandr Zaskalko, Mykola Chupryna, Leonid Shaposhnykov

Men's eight – 10th place

Yevhen Sharonin, Roman Hrynevych, Vitaliy Raievskiy, Valeriy Samara, Oleh Lykov, Ihor Martynenko, Ihor Mohylniy, Oleksandr Kapustin, Hrihoriy Dmytrenko

Women's double sculls – 8th place

Tetiana Ustiuzhanina, Olena Reutova

Women's quadruple sculls – 2nd place (silver medal)

Olena Ronzhyna, Inna Frolova, Svitlana Maziy, Dina Miftakhutdynova

Swimming

Men's 50 m Freestyle

Yuriy Vlasov

1. Heat – 22.77
2. B-Final – 22.82 (→ 11th place)

Pavel Khnykin

1. Heat – 22.91 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Men's 100 m Freestyle

Pavel Khnykin

1. Heat – 49.69
2. Final – 49.65 (→ 6th place)

Rostislav Svanidze

1. Heat – 50.31
2. B-Final – 50.43 (→ 14th place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

Igor Snitko

1. Heat – 3:55.67
2. B-Final – 3:54.63 (→ 12th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

Igor Snitko

1. Heat – 15:31.40 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Denys Zavhorodniy

1. Heat – 15:46.79 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

Volodymyr Nikolaychuk

1. Heat – 56.71 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

Alexander Dzhaburiya

1. Heat – 1:02.70
2. B-Final – 1:02.91 (→ 13th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

Dimitri Ivanusa

1. Heat – 2:17.54 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

Pavel Khnykin

1. Heat – 53.25
2. Final – 53.58 (→ 8th place)

Denys Sylantyev

1. Heat – 54.33 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

Denys Sylantyev

1. Heat – 1:58.04
2. Final – 1:58.37 (→ 6th place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

Sergei Sergeyev

1. Heat – 2:06.30 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

Volodymyr Nikolaychuk, Oleksandr Dzhaburiya, Denys Sylantyev, and Pavel Khnykin

1. Heat – 3:42.29 (→ did not advance, 9th place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

Elena Lapunova

1. Heat – 2:04.07 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

Svetlana Bondarenko

1. Heat – 1:09.79
2. Final – 1:09.21 (→ 4th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

Svetlana Bondarenko

1. Heat – 2:32.42
2. B-Final – scratched

Women's 100 m Butterfly

Natalia Zolotukhina

1. Heat – 1:02.18 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

Natalia Zolotukhina

1. Heat – 2:16.68 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

Elena Lapunova

1. Heat – 2:20.76 (→ did not advance, 29th place)

Women's Indoor Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group A)

Lost to United States (0-3)

Lost to Japan (0-3)

Lost to South Korea (0-3)

Lost to China (0-3)

Lost to Netherlands (0-3)

Quarterfinals

did not advance (→ Eleventh place)

Team Roster

Nataliya Bozhenova

Yuliya Buyeva

Olexandra Fomina

Tetyana Ivanyushkyna

Olga Kolomiyets

Alla Kravets

Olena Kryvonossova

Vita Mateshik

Regina Mylosserdova

Olga Pavlova

Mariya Polyakova

Olena Sydorenko

Head Coach: Gariy Iegiazarov

Men's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group B)

Ukraine – Romania 6-6

Ukraine – Italy 6-8

Ukraine – United States 7-9

Ukraine – Croatia 8-16

Ukraine – Greece 6-9

Classification Matches

9th/12th place: Ukraine – Germany 4-10

9th/12th place: Ukraine – Romania 8-11

9th/12th place: Ukraine – Netherlands 9-9 (→ Twelfth place)

Team Roster

Andriy Kovalenko

Dmytro Andreyev

Ihor Horbach

Vadym Kebalo

Vitaliy Khalchaytsky

Vyacheslav Kostanda

Oleksandr Potulnytsky

Vadym Rozhdestvensky

Vadym Skuratov

Anatoliy Solodun

Dmytro Stratan

Oleh Vladymyrov

Oleksiy Yegorov

Weightlifting

Men's Lightweight

Oleksiy Khizhniak

Men's Light-Heavyweight

Oleksandr Blyshchyk

Men's Light-Heavyweight

Oleksandr Blyshchyk

Final — 167.5 + — (→ no ranking)

Men's Middle-Heavyweight

Oleh Chumak

Men's Heavyweight I

Denys Hotfrid

Stanislav Rybalchenko

Men's Heavyweight II (– 108 kg)

Timur Taymazov

Snatch — 195.0 kg

Clean & Jerk — 235.0 kg

Total — 430.0 kg (→ Gold Medal)

Ihor Razoronov

Snatch — no mark

Clean & Jerk — no mark

Total — no mark (→ no ranking)