Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

competed in the Summer Olympic Games

Summer Olympic Games

The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad are an international multi-sport event, occurring every four years, organized by the International Olympic Committee. Medals are awarded in each event, with gold medals for first place, silver for second and bronze for third, a tradition that...

 as an independent nation for the first time at the 1996 Summer Olympics

1996 Summer Olympics

The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

in Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...

, United States

United States

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. Previously, Ukrainian athletes competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics

The Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, was a joint team consisting of twelve of the fifteen former Soviet republics. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania competed separately. The team has been informally called the Commonwealth of Independent States team, though Georgia was...

.

Gold

• Inessa Kravets
  Inessa Kravets
  Inessa Mykolajivna Kravets is an Ukrainian triple jumper and long jumper.She jumped the world record at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg with 15.50m after studying a picture of Jonathan Edwards....
  
   — Athletics, Women's Triple Jump

• Wladimir Klitschko
  Wladimir Klitschko
  Wladimir Klitschko is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer. Klitschko is the WBA , IBF, WBO Super, IBO & Ring Magazine Champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC champion...
  
   — Boxing, Men's Super Heavyweight

• Rustam Sharipov
  Rustam Sharipov
  Rustam Sharipov is a Ukrainian gymnast and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, representing Ukraine, and also a gold medal for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona....
  
   — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars

• Lilia Podkopayeva
  Lilia Podkopayeva
  Lilia Alexandrivna Podkopayeva ; born August 15, 1978 in Donetsk) is a retired Ukrainian gymnast who became the 1996 Olympic all-around champion, the 1995 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships all-around champion and the 1996 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships all-around champion...
  
   — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual

• Lilia Podkopayeva
  Lilia Podkopayeva
  Lilia Alexandrivna Podkopayeva ; born August 15, 1978 in Donetsk) is a retired Ukrainian gymnast who became the 1996 Olympic all-around champion, the 1995 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships all-around champion and the 1996 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships all-around champion...
  
   — Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercises

• Ekaterina Serebryanskaya — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around

• Timur Taymazov
  Timur Taymazov
  Timur Taymazov is a Ukrainian weightlifter and Olympic champion.He was born in Nogir, North Ossetia. Taymazov has a younger brother, Artur, who is also 2004 Olympic Champion in freestyle wrestling....
  
   — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight (108 kg)

• Vyacheslav Oleynyk
  Vyacheslav Oleynyk
  Vyacheslav Oleynyk is a Ukrainian wrestler and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.-References:...
  
   — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight (90 kg)

• Yevhen Braslavets
  Yevhen Braslavets
  Yevhen Braslavets is a Ukrainian sailor and Olympic champion.He won a gold medal in the 470 Class at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, together with Ihor Matviyenko.-References:...
  
   and Ihor Matviyenko
  Ihor Matviyenko
  Ihor Matviyenko is a Ukrainian sailor and Olympic champion.He won a gold medal in the 470 Class at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, together with Yevhen Braslavets.-References:...
  
   — Sailing, Men's 470 Team Competition

Silver

• Lilia Podkopayeva
  Lilia Podkopayeva
  Lilia Alexandrivna Podkopayeva ; born August 15, 1978 in Donetsk) is a retired Ukrainian gymnast who became the 1996 Olympic all-around champion, the 1995 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships all-around champion and the 1996 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships all-around champion...
  
   — Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam

• Inna Frolova
  Inna Frolova
  Inna Frolova is a retired rower from Ukraine, who twice won an Olympic medal during her career. She is a three-time Olympian.After having won the silver medal for the Soviet Union in the Women's Quadruple Sculls at the 1988 Summer Olympics Frolova repeated that feat, rowing for the Ukraine at the...
  
  , Svetlana Maziy
  Svetlana Maziy
  Svetlana Maziy is a retired rower from Ukraine, who twice won an Olympic medal during her career. She is a four-time Olympian.After having won the silver medal for the Soviet Union in the Women's Quadruple Sculls at the 1988 Summer Olympics Frolova repeated that feat, rowing for independent...
  
  , Dina Myftakhutdinova
  Dina Myftakhutdinova
  Dina Myftakhutdinova is a retired rower from Ukraine, who won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She is a two-time Olympian. In Atlanta, Georgia her teammates in the Women's Quadruple Sculls were Olena Ronzhyna, Svetlana Maziy, and Inna Frolova....
  
  , and Olena Ronzhyna
  Olena Ronzhyna
  Olena Ronzhyna-Morozova is a retired rower from Ukraine, who won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She is a four-time Olympian.After having competed for the Unified Team in 1992 Ronzhyna was a member of the Ukrainian team, that claimed the silver medal in the Women's Quadruple Sculls in...
  
   — Rowing, Women's Quadruple Sculls

Bronze

• Olena Sadovnycha
  Olena Sadovnycha
  Olena Sadovnycha is an archer from Ukraine who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics....
  
   — Archery, Women's Individual Competition

• Aleksandr Bagach — Athletics, Men's Shot Put

• Oleksiy Krykun
  Oleksiy Krykun
  Oleksandr Krykun is a former Ukrainian hammer thrower. At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Krykun won a bronze medal in hammer throw, averaging heaves of 80.02 meters.-Achievements:-References:*...
  
   — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw

• Inga Babakhova — Athletics, Women's High Jump

• Oleg Kiryukhin
  Oleg Kiryukhin
  Oleg Kiryukin is a Ukrainian boxer, who won the light flyweight bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.-Olympic results:*Defeated Abdul Rashid Qambrani 17-3*Defeated Beibis Mendoza 18-6...
  
   — Boxing, Men's Light Flyweight

• Igor Korobchinsky
  Igor Korobchinsky
  Igor Korobchinsky is a former gymnast that represented the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Ukraine.-External links:...
  
  , Oleg Kosiak, Grigory Misyutin, Vladimir Shamenko, Rustam Sharipov
  Rustam Sharipov
  Rustam Sharipov is a Ukrainian gymnast and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, representing Ukraine, and also a gold medal for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona....
  
  , Alexandre Svetlichnyi, and Yuri Yermakov — Gymnastics, Men's Team Combined Exercises

• Elena Vitrichenko
  Elena Vitrichenko
  Olena Ihorivna Vitrychenko is an Individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She comes from a gymnast family - her mother Nina was also a rhythmic gymnast and indeed was also her daughter's coach at the famed Deryuguina School in Kiev...
  
   — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around

• Denys Hotfrid
  Denys Hotfrid
  Denys Rudolfovych Hotfrid is a retired male weightlifter from Ukraine. He twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1996 and 2000...
  
   — Weightlifting, Men's 99 kg

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

• Elbrus Tedeyev
  Elbrus Tedeyev
  Elbrus Tedeyev is a Ukrainian wrestler and Olympic champion; he became a citizen of Ukraine in 1993. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...
  
   — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Featherweight (62 kg)

• Zaza Zazirov
  Zaza Zazirov
  Zaza Zazirov is a Ukrainian wrestler and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He obtained one silver medal and one bronze medal at the FILA Wrestling World Championships....
  
   — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Lightweight (68 kg)

• Olena Pakholchik and Ruslana Taran
  Ruslana Taran
  Ruslana Oleksiïvna Taran is a Ukrainian sailor.- References :* at sports-reference.com...
  
   — Sailing, Women's 470 Team Competition

Archery

Archery at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Archery at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta consisted of four events. The events were held in neighboring Stone Mountain.All archery was done at a range of 70 metres. 64 archers competed in each the men's individual and women's individual competitions. They began with a 72-arrow ranking round...

Women's Individual Competition:

• Olena Sadovnycha
  Olena Sadovnycha
  Olena Sadovnycha is an archer from Ukraine who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics....
  
   → 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
  Volodymyr Kravchenko
  Volodymyr Kravchenko is a Ukrainian triple jumper, best known for placing tenth at the 1996 Summer Olympics. His personal best was 16.80 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Kiev.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
  
• Qualification — 16.90m
• Final — 16.62m (→ 10th place)

Men's Pole Vault

• Sergey Bubka
• Qualification — did not start (→ no ranking)

• Vasiliy Bubka
  Vasiliy Bubka
  Vasyliy Bubka is a retired pole vaulter who represented the USSR and later Ukraine...
  
  
• Qualification — no mark (→ no ranking)

Men's Decathlon

• Vitaliy Kolpakov
• Final Result — 8025 points (→ 22nd place)

• Lev Lobodin
  Lev Lobodin
  Lev Alekseyevich Lobodin is a male decathlete from Russia, having changed nationality from Ukraine at the end of 1996. His best achievement was the silver medal at the 2003 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham.-Achievements:- Personal bests :...
  
  
• Final Result — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's Shot Put

• Aleksandr Bagach
• Qualification — 20.23m
• Final — 20.75m (→ Bronze Medal)

• Roman Virastyuk
  Roman Virastyuk
  Roman Virastyuk is a Ukrainian shot putter, best known for his bronze medal at the 1994 European Championships and the sixth place at the 1996 Olympic Games...
  
  
• Qualification — 19.81m
• Final — 20.45m (→ 6th place)

• Oleksandr Klymenko
• Qualification — 19.45m
• Final — no mark (→ no ranking)

Men's Discus Throw

• Vitaliy Sidorov
  Vitaliy Sidorov
  Vitaliy Sidorov |Georgia]]) is a retired discus thrower, who represented Ukraine and later Russia at the Summer Olympics.He set his personal best in the men's discus throw on May 3, 1998 at a meet in Kiev. Sidorov also competed in the men's shot put. Sidorov adopted the Russian nationality on...
  
  
• Qualification — 63.42m
• Final — 63.78m (→ 7th place)

• Andriy Kokhanovskiy
• Qualification — 57.90m (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

• Oleksiy Krykun
  Oleksiy Krykun
  Oleksandr Krykun is a former Ukrainian hammer thrower. At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Krykun won a bronze medal in hammer throw, averaging heaves of 80.02 meters.-Achievements:-References:*...
  
  
• Qualification — 75.78m
• Final — 80.02m (→ Bronze Medal)

• Andriy Skvaruk
  Andriy Skvaruk
  Andriy Skvaruk is a male hammer thrower from Ukraine, whose personal best throw is 82.62 metres, achieved in April 2002 in Koncha-Zaspa.-Achievements:-External links:*...
  
  
• Qualification — 77.48m
• Final — 79.92m (→ 4th place)

Women's Competition

Women's 100 metres

• Zhanna Pintusevych
• Iryna Pukha
  Iryna Pukha
  Iryna Pukha is a retired Ukrainian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.She won a bronze medal in 60 metres at the 2000 European Indoor Championships. She also competed at the 1995 World Indoor Championships and the 2001 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.In the 100 metres...
  
  

Women's 200 metres

• Zhanna Pintusevych
• Viktoriya Fomenko
  Viktoriya Fomenko
  Viktoriya Fomenko is a retired Ukrainian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.She competed at the 1994 European Championships, the 1995 World Indoor Championships, and the 1996 Olympic Games without reaching the final. In the 4 x 100 metres relay she finished fourth at the 1994 European...
  
  

Women's 400 metres

• Iana Manuylova

• Olena Rurak
• Heat — 52.92 (→ did not advance)

Women's 4x400 metres Relay

• Viktoriya Fomenko
  Viktoriya Fomenko
  Viktoriya Fomenko is a retired Ukrainian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.She competed at the 1994 European Championships, the 1995 World Indoor Championships, and the 1996 Olympic Games without reaching the final. In the 4 x 100 metres relay she finished fourth at the 1994 European...
  
  , Lyudmyla Koshchey, Yana Manuylova, and Olha Moroz
• Qualification — 3:28.16 (→ did not advance)

Women's 400m 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
  Inessa Kravets
  Inessa Mykolajivna Kravets is an Ukrainian triple jumper and long jumper.She jumped the world record at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg with 15.50m after studying a picture of Jonathan Edwards....
  
  
• Qualification — NM (→ did not advance)

• Viktoriya Vershynina
  Viktoriya Vershynina
  Viktoriya Vershynina is a retired Ukrainian long jumper.Her personal best was 6.92 metres, achieved in July 1999 in Belaya Tserkov. In the triple jump she has a personal best of 13.84 metres, from 1994.-Achievements:-References:...
  
  
• Qualification — NM (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

• Inha Babakova
  Inha Babakova
  Inha Babakova . is a former high jumper who represented the Soviet Union and later Ukraine. Her personal best is 2.05 metres.-References:*...
  
  
• Qualification — 1.93m
• Final — 2.01m (→ Bronze Medal)

• Vita Styopina
• Qualification — 1.85m (→ did not advance)

Women's Triple Jump

• Inessa Kravets
  Inessa Kravets
  Inessa Mykolajivna Kravets is an Ukrainian triple jumper and long jumper.She jumped the world record at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg with 15.50m after studying a picture of Jonathan Edwards....
  
  
• Qualification — 14.57m
• Final — 15.33m (→ Gold Medal)

• Olena Hovorova
  Olena Hovorova
  Olena Ivanivna Hovorova , also known as Yelena Govorova, is a former Ukrainian track and field athlete who specialised in triple jump competitions. She won the triple jump bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with her personal best jump of 14.96 metres...
  
  
• Qualification — 14.60m
• Final — 14.09m (→ 10th place)

• Olena Khlusovych
  Olena Khlusovych
  Olena Khlusovych is a retired Ukrainian triple jumper.She finished twelfth at the 1996 Olympic Games. She also competed at the World Indoor Championships in 1995 and 1997, the 1997 World Championships and the 2000 Olympic Games without reaching the final.Her personal best jump is 14.38 metres,...
  
  
• Qualification — 14.38m
• Final — 13.81m (→ 12th place)

Women's Discus Throw

• Olena Antonova
  Olena Antonova
  Olena Anatolyevna Antonova is a Ukrainian discus thrower. Her personal best throw is 67.30 metres, achieved in June 2004 in Kiev. She won the bronze medal in Women's discus throw at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.-Achievements:-References:...
  
  
• Qualification — 57.92m (→ did not advance)

Women's Shot Put

• Vita Pavlysh
  Vita Pavlysh
  Vita Pavlysh is a former athlete who specialised in the shot put....
  
  
• Qualification — 19.04m
• Final — 19.30m (→ 4th place)

• Valentyna Fedyushyna
• Qualification — 19.22m
• Final — 17.99m (→ 12th place)

Women's Marathon

• Lyubov Klochko
  Lyubov Klochko
  Lyubov Klochko is a retired female long-distance runner from Ukraine. She set her personal best in the women's marathon in 1988.-Achievements:-References:*...
  
   — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's 10km Walk

• Tatyana Ragozina
  Tatyana Ragozina
  Tatyana Ragozina is a retired female race walker from Ukraine, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. She set her personal best in the women's 20 km event on June 17, 2000 in Eisenhüttenstadt....
  
   — 46:25 (→ 30th place)

Boxing

Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

-Qualification:The following tournaments were used as qualification tournaments for boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.Africa* All-Africa Games in Harare, Zimbabwe from September 13 to September 23, 1995* Qualification Tournament in April/May? 1996...

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• Oleg Kiryukhin
  Oleg Kiryukhin
  Oleg Kiryukin is a Ukrainian boxer, who won the light flyweight bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.-Olympic results:*Defeated Abdul Rashid Qambrani 17-3*Defeated Beibis Mendoza 18-6...
  
   → Bronze Medal
• First Round — Defeated Abdul Rashid Qambrani
  Abdul Rashid Qambrani
  Abdul Rashid Qambrani is a retired male boxer from Pakistan, who competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There he was stopped in the first round of the men's light flyweight division by Ukraine's eventual bronze medalist Oleg Kiryukhin.-References:*...
  
   (Pakistan), 17-3
• Second Round — Defeated Beibis Mendoza
  Beibis Mendoza
  Beibis Antonio Mendoza is a professional boxer from Colombia. He is a former WBA light-flyweight champion.- Amateur career :Mendoza was a member of the 1996 Colombian Olympic Team as a Light Flyweight...
  
   (Colombia), 18-6
• Quarterfinals — Defeated Albert Guardado
  Albert Guardado
  Albert Guardado is a retired boxer from the United States, who competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...
  
   (United States), 19-14
• Semifinals — Lost to Daniel Petrov
  Daniel Petrov
  Daniel Bozhilov Petrov is a Bulgarian boxer. He won a silver medal at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and a gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 in the category Light Flyweight....
  
   (Bulgaria), 8-17

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

• Serhiy Kovganko
  Serhiy Kovganko
  Serhiy Kovhanko is a boxer from Ukraine, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Flyweight division at the 1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Vejle, Denmark....
  
  
• First Round — Defeated Darwin Angeles
  Darwin Angeles
  Darwin Angeles Discua is a retired male boxer from Honduras, who competed in the men's light flyweight and flyweight division during his career. He twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics...
  
   (Honduras), 12-6
• Second Round — Lost to Bulat Jumadilov
  Bulat Jumadilov
  Bulat Jumadilov is a Kazakh boxer who competed in the Men's Flyweight at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal. Four years earlier at the 1996 Summer Olympics he also captured the silver medal...
  
   (Kazakhstan), 4-21

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

• Yevheniy Shestakov
  Yevheniy Shestakov
  Yevheniy Shestakov is a retired male boxer from Ukraine.He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was stopped in the first round of the men's featherweight division by Bulgaria's eventual silver medalist Serafim Todorov.-References:*...
  
  
• First Round — Lost to Serafim Todorov
  Serafim Todorov
  Serafim Simeonov Todorov or Gogi Todoridze is a former Bulgarian/Georgian boxer who won the amateur world championship three times...
  
   (Bulgaria), 4-11

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

• Sergiy Dzindziruk
  Sergiy Dzindziruk
  Sergiy "Razor" Dzinziruk is a Ukrainian professional boxer in the junior middleweight division. He is the current WBO Super Welterweight Champion.- Amateur :...
  
  
• First Round — Defeated Jangphonak Parkpoom (Thailand), 20-10
• Second Round — Lost to Hasan Al
  Hasan Al
  Hasan Al is a Turkish-born boxer from Denmark, best known for winning the European welterweight title in 1996 as an amateur.-Amateur:In his adopted country he became European Champ in 1996 against Marian Simion...
  
   (Denmark), 4-10

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

• Serhiy Horodnichov
  Serhiy Horodnichov
  Serhiy Horodnichov is a retired male boxer from Ukraine. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was stopped in the first round of the men's light-middleweight division by Cuba's eventual silver medalist Alfredo Duvergel.-References:*...
  
  
• First Round — Defeated Albert Eromosele (Nigeria), 18-4
• Second Round — Lost to Alfredo Duvergel
  Alfredo Duvergel
  Alfredo Duvergel is a Cuban boxer. He won the silver medal in the men's light middleweight category at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.-Career:...
  
   (Cuba), 2-15

Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

• Rostyslav Zaulychnyi
  Rostyslav Zaulychnyi
  Rostyslav Zaulychnyi is a retired Ukrainian amateur boxer, who represented the Unified Team and won the Light Heavyweight Silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.-Olympic results:*1st round bye...
  
  
• First Round — Lost to Timur Ibragimov
  Timur Ibragimov
  Timur Ibragimov is a heavyweight professional boxer.-Personal:...
  
   (Uzbekistan), 3-7

Men's Super Heavyweight (> 91 kg)

• Wladimir Klitschko
  Wladimir Klitschko
  Wladimir Klitschko is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer. Klitschko is the WBA , IBF, WBO Super, IBO & Ring Magazine Champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC champion...
  
   → Gold Medal
• First Round — Bye
• Second Round — Defeated Lawrence Clay-Bey (United States), 10-8
• Quarterfinals — Defeated Attila Levin
  Attila Levin
  Attila Levin is a Swedish boxer in the Heavyweight division.-Amateur career:Levin had a stellar amateur career prior to turning professional....
  
   (Sweden), referee stopped contest in first round
• Semifinals — Defeated Alexei Lezin
  Alexei Lezin
  Alexei Vladimirovich Lezin was a Russian boxer, who won the Super Heavyweight bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.Lezin never turned pro.- Amateur accomplishments :*1993 competed as a Heavyweight at the World Championships in Tampere, Finland...
  
   (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

Diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, four diving events were contested during a competition that took place at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, from 26 July to 2 August, comprising a total of 121 divers from 40 nations.-Men:-Women:-Medal table:...

Men's 3m Springboard

• Roman Volod'kov
  Roman Volod'kov
  Roman Volod'kov is a retired diver from Ukraine, who represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. He is best known for winning an individual bronze medal at the European Championships in 1995.-References:*...
  
  
• 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 3m Springboard

• Olena Zhupina
  Olena Zhupina
  Olena Zhupina is a female diver from Ukraine who won the bronze medal with Ganna Sorokina in the Women's 3m Synchronized Springboard competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Zhupina also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics.-References:*...
  
  
• 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 10m Platform

• Olena Zhupina
  Olena Zhupina
  Olena Zhupina is a female diver from Ukraine who won the bronze medal with Ganna Sorokina in the Women's 3m Synchronized Springboard competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Zhupina also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics.-References:*...
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — 280.11
• Semi Final — 171.24
• Final — 265.77 (→ 6th place)

• Svitlana Serbina
  Svitlana Serbina
  Svitlana Serbina is a female diver from Ukraine, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1996 and 2000. She claimed the gold medal in the women's 3 m synchronized springboard competition at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Western Australia, alongside...
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — 244.05
• Semi Final — 165.06 (→ did not advance, 14th place)

Modern pentathlon

Modern pentathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Team events were eliminated from the 1996 Olympics.-Medal Summary:Individual:-Final Results:-References:*...

Men's Individual Competition:

• Heorhiy Chymerys — 5154 pts (→ 24th place)

Rowing

Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Taking place at Lake Lanier, Georgia, United States, the 1996 Summer Olympics saw the debut of lightweight rowing events. The three included replaced the remaining coxed events for men and the Women's Coxless Four...

Men's Single Sculls

• Oleksandr Khimich

Men's Quadruple Sculls

• Oleksandr Marchenko
  Oleksandr Marchenko
  Oleksandr Mykolaiovych Marchenko is an Ukrainian rower.He and his partner Vasil Yakusha won the bronze medal for the Soviet Union in the double sculls competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics.- References :* at sports-reference.com...
  
  
• Oleksandr Zaskalko
• Mykola Chupryna
  Mykola Chupryna
  Mykola Mykolaiovych Chupryna is an Ukrainian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...
  
  
• Leonid Shaposhnykov
  Leonid Shaposhnykov
  Leonid Anatoliyovych Shaposhnykov is a Ukrainian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...
  
  

Men's Coxed Eights

• Yevhen Sharonin
• Roman Hrynevych
• Vitaliy Rayvsky
• Valeriy Samara
• Oleh Lykov
  Oleh Lykov
  Oleh Viktorovych Lykov is a Ukrainian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...
  
  
• Ihor Martynenko
• Ihor Mohylniy
• Oleksandr Kapustin
• Hrihoriy Dmytrenko
  Hrihoriy Dmytrenko
  Hrihoriy Mykolayovych Dmytrenko is a Ukrainian former rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics and for Ukraine in the 1992 Summer Olympics....
  
  

Women's Double Sculls

• Tetyana Ustyuzhanina
• Olena Reutova

Women's Quadruple Sculls

• Olena Ronzhyna
  Olena Ronzhyna
  Olena Ronzhyna-Morozova is a retired rower from Ukraine, who won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She is a four-time Olympian.After having competed for the Unified Team in 1992 Ronzhyna was a member of the Ukrainian team, that claimed the silver medal in the Women's Quadruple Sculls in...
  
  
• Inna Frolova
  Inna Frolova
  Inna Frolova is a retired rower from Ukraine, who twice won an Olympic medal during her career. She is a three-time Olympian.After having won the silver medal for the Soviet Union in the Women's Quadruple Sculls at the 1988 Summer Olympics Frolova repeated that feat, rowing for the Ukraine at the...
  
  
• Svetlana Maziy
  Svetlana Maziy
  Svetlana Maziy is a retired rower from Ukraine, who twice won an Olympic medal during her career. She is a four-time Olympian.After having won the silver medal for the Soviet Union in the Women's Quadruple Sculls at the 1988 Summer Olympics Frolova repeated that feat, rowing for independent...
  
  
• Dina Myftakhutdinova
  Dina Myftakhutdinova
  Dina Myftakhutdinova is a retired rower from Ukraine, who won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She is a two-time Olympian. In Atlanta, Georgia her teammates in the Women's Quadruple Sculls were Olena Ronzhyna, Svetlana Maziy, and Inna Frolova....
  
  

Swimming

Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics

The swimming competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics was held at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States, which was built for the Games...

Men's 50 m Freestyle

• Yuriy Vlasov
  Yuriy Vlasov
  Yuriy Vlasov is a retired male freestyle swimmer from Ukraine. He competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, finishing in 11th place in the men's 50 m freestyle event.-References:*...
  
  
  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
  Igor Snitko
  Ihor Snitko is a retired freestyle swimmer from Ukraine, who was a specialist in the long-distance events. He won the silver medal in the men's 1500 m freestyle event at the 1997 European Championships in Seville, Spain, followed by the gold medal two years later in Istanbul...
  
  
  1. Heat – 3:55.67
  2. B-Final – 3:54.63 (→ 12th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

• Igor Snitko
  Igor Snitko
  Ihor Snitko is a retired freestyle swimmer from Ukraine, who was a specialist in the long-distance events. He won the silver medal in the men's 1500 m freestyle event at the 1997 European Championships in Seville, Spain, followed by the gold medal two years later in Istanbul...
  
  
  1. Heat – 15:31.40 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

• Denys Zavhorodniy
  Denys Zavhorodniy
  Denys Zavhorodniy is a retired freestyle swimmer from Ukraine, who was specialized in the long-distance events. He won the bronze medal in the men's 1500 m freestyle event at the 1997 European Championships in Seville, Spain, behind country man Igor Snitko...
  
  
  1. Heat – 15:46.79 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

• Volodymyr Nikolaychuk
  Volodymyr Nikolaychuk
  Volodymyr Nikolaychuk is a backstroke swimmer from Ukraine, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. He won a bronze and a silver medal at the 2000 European Long Course Championships in Helsinki, Finland.-References:* *...
  
  
  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
  Denys Sylantyev
  Denys Sylantyev is a Ukrainian swimmer, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney in the 200 m butterfly.He won the Mare Nostrum circuit three times: 2000, 2001 and 2002.-References:*...
  
  
  1. Heat – 54.33 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

• Denys Sylantyev
  Denys Sylantyev
  Denys Sylantyev is a Ukrainian swimmer, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney in the 200 m butterfly.He won the Mare Nostrum circuit three times: 2000, 2001 and 2002.-References:*...
  
  
  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 4x100 m Medley Relay

• Volodymyr Nikolaychuk
  Volodymyr Nikolaychuk
  Volodymyr Nikolaychuk is a backstroke swimmer from Ukraine, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. He won a bronze and a silver medal at the 2000 European Long Course Championships in Helsinki, Finland.-References:* *...
  
  , Oleksandr Dzhaburiya, Denys Sylantyev
  Denys Sylantyev
  Denys Sylantyev is a Ukrainian swimmer, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney in the 200 m butterfly.He won the Mare Nostrum circuit three times: 2000, 2001 and 2002.-References:*...
  
  , 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
  Svetlana Bondarenko
  Svitlana Bondarenko is a former breaststroke swimmer from Ukraine, who won two silver medals at the 1995 FINA Short Course World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.In the 1990s Bondarenko also won three silver medals at the European Championships...
  
  
  1. Heat – 1:09.79
  2. Final – 1:09.21 (→ 4th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

• Svetlana Bondarenko
  Svetlana Bondarenko
  Svitlana Bondarenko is a former breaststroke swimmer from Ukraine, who won two silver medals at the 1995 FINA Short Course World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.In the 1990s Bondarenko also won three silver medals at the European Championships...
  
  
  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
  Alexandre Kovalenko
  Andriy Kovalenko is an Australian water polo player and current coach of the UWA Torpedoes Men's Water Polo team....
  
  
• 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

Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics

The weightlifting competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta consisted of ten weight classes, for men only. The range of each weight class was adjusted by 1–4 kg for these Games, marking the first redefinition of Olympic weightlifting weight classes since they were introduced in...

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
  Denys Hotfrid
  Denys Rudolfovych Hotfrid is a retired male weightlifter from Ukraine. He twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1996 and 2000...
  
  
• Stanislav Rybalchenko

Men's Heavyweight II (– 108 kg)

• Timur Taymazov
  Timur Taymazov
  Timur Taymazov is a Ukrainian weightlifter and Olympic champion.He was born in Nogir, North Ossetia. Taymazov has a younger brother, Artur, who is also 2004 Olympic Champion in freestyle wrestling....
  
  
• Snatch — 195.0 kg
• Clean & Jerk — 235.0 kg
• Total — 430.0 kg (→ Gold Medal)

• Ihor Razoronov
  Ihor Razoronov
  -References:*...
  
  
• Snatch — no mark
• Clean & Jerk — no mark
• Total — no mark (→ no ranking)