List of Ukrainian sportspeople

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 Kyrylo Marsak — 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 Anatolii Brezvin (born 1956), president of the Ice Hockey Federation of Ukraine from 2006 to 2020 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

Triathlon Danyil Odynets

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