Ukraine competed at the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, from 16 to 26 July 2009. Ukraine has qualified the national beach handball team for the women's tournament. Ukrainian athletes competed also in acrobatic gymnastics, bodybuilding, dancesport, dragon boat, finswimming, ju-jitsu, powerlifting, rhythmic gymnastics, sport climbing, sumo, trampoline gymnastics, tug of war, and water skiing.List of Ukrainian competitors at the 2009 World Games For the first time since the inception of the sport, Ukraine did not compete in orienteering. The team did not compete in squash and wushu.
Medalists Main programme Medal Name Sport Event Mykola CherbakSerhiy Popov Acrobatic gymnastics Men's pairs Alevtyna Tytarenko Bodybuilding Women's fitness Ihor Soroka Finswimming Men's 50 m apnoea Viktor PanovDmytro ShekeraIhor SorokaDmytro Sydorenko Finswimming Men's 4 x 100 m surface relay Serhiy Pevnev Powerlifting Men's heavyweight Larysa Soloviova Powerlifting Women's heavyweight Iryna Yavorska Powerlifting Women's super heavyweight Alina Boykova Sumo Women's lightweight Iuliia DomchevskaOlena Movchan Trampoline gymnastics Women's synchro Viacheslav Makohon Bodybuilding Men's 70 kg Dmytro Sydorenko Finswimming Men's 100 m surface Arkadiy Shalokha Powerlifting Men's lightweight Andriy Naniev Powerlifting Men's middleweight Oleksandr Shepel Powerlifting Men's super heavyweight Tetyana Prymenchuk Powerlifting Women's middleweight Anna Bessonova Rhythmic gymnastics Rope Anna Bessonova Rhythmic gymnastics Ball Anna Bessonova Rhythmic gymnastics Ribbon Maryna Pryshchepa Sumo Women's middleweight Olha Davydko Sumo Women's heavyweight Olha Davydko Sumo Women's openweight Andriy BilozorDenys KriuchkovAndrii LytvakRoman Urazbakiyev Acrobatic gymnastics Men's groups Kateryna KalytaYuliya OdintsovaNatalia Vinnyk Acrobatic gymnastics Women's groups Nataliia Dichkovska Bodybuilding Women's 55 kg Olha Shliakhovska Finswimming Women's 200 m surface Olha Shliakhovska Finswimming Women's 400 m surface Valeriy Karpov Powerlifting Men's super heavyweight Zhanna Ivanova Powerlifting Women's middleweight Maksym Styenkovyy Sport climbing Men's speed Kostiantyn Iermakov Sumo Men's middleweight Viktor Kyforenko Trampoline gymnastics Men's tumbling
Doping sanctions On 26 October 2009, the IWGA announced sanctions against the following Ukrainian competitors: Beila Balog, middleweight gold medalist, who tested positive twice on various anabolic steroids, diuretics and SERMs – disqualification of results at the 2009 World Games, forfeiture of medals and permanent lifetime suspension from The World Games; Oleksandr Bilous, heavyweight gold medalist, who tested positive on various masking agents/diuretics and testosterone – disqualification of results at the 2009 World Games, forfeiture of medals and permanent lifetime suspension from The World Games.
Dragon boat
Ukraine did not register to compete in the 1000 m race.Results AthleteEventHeatsRepechageSemifinalsFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRankAndriy PohribnyiVlada KosytskaOleh HordiichukAliona SlyvaOleksandr KosarevYuriy SivashNataliia HlushkoVolodymyr TibabishevNataliia KravtsovaMykhailo SkybaYevhen BazhenkovVitaliy MyronovNataliia HordiienkoSerhii SanchenkoYevhen LokhOlena GudzhylAnastasiia AntonenkoDmytro DrachukYuliia VyzhevskaYevhen KostomakhaYuriy Stepanovych200 m57.924 q R56.453 Q SF58.435 q FB1:00.179500 mcolspan=2 colspan=6 2000 mcolspan=2 colspan=6
Ju-jitsu
Men AthleteEventQuarterfinalsBM quarterfinalsSemifinalsBM semifinalsFinal/Bronze medal boutOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRank Ivan Nastenko 77 kg W L L colspan=2 Leonid Rubtsov 94 kg L W L 4
References
External sources Ukraine's medal at the 2009 World Games (list at the official website of the Games)