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
• 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
• Serguei 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
• Viktor Petrenko – Olympic champion

Football[]

• Yevhen Konoplyanka
• Andriy Oberemko
• Serhiy 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

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

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