Ukraine at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Ukraine at the Olympic Games
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At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
Competitors	239 (124 men and 115 women) in 23 sports
Flag bearer	Denys Sylantyev
Medals Rank: 12	Gold 8	Silver 5	Bronze 9	Total 22
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Ukraine competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. 239 competitors, 124 men and 115 women, took part in 175 events in 23 sports.

Medalists

Further information: 2004 Summer Olympics medal table and List of 2004 Summer Olympics medal winners

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
1 ! Gold	Yuriy Bilonoh	Athletics	Men's shot put	02013-08-18August 18
1 ! Gold	Valeri Goncharov	Gymnastics	Men's parallel bars	02013-08-23August 23
1 ! Gold	Yuri Nikitin	Gymnastics	Men's trampoline	02013-08-21August 21
1 ! Gold	Olena Kostevych	Shooting	Women's 10 m air pistol	02013-08-15August 15
1 ! Gold	Yana Klochkova	Swimming	Women's 200 m individual medley	02013-08-17August 17
1 ! Gold	Yana Klochkova	Swimming	Women's 400 m individual medley	02013-08-14August 14
1 ! Gold	Nataliya Skakun	Weightlifting	Women's 63 kg	02013-08-18August 18
1 ! Gold	Elbrus Tedeyev	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 66 kg	02013-08-28August 28
1 ! Gold	Iryna Merleni	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 48 kg	02013-08-23August 23
2 ! Silver	Olena Krasovska	Athletics	Women's 100 m hurdles	02013-08-24August 24
2 ! Silver	Roman Gontiuk	Judo	Men's 81 kg	02013-08-17August 17
2 ! Silver	George Leonchuk, Rodion Luka	Sailing	49er class	02013-08-26August 26
2 ! Silver	Ganna Kalinina, Svitlana Matevusheva, Ruslana Taran	Sailing	Yngling class	02013-08-20August 20
2 ! Silver	Ihor Razoronov	Weightlifting	Men's 105 kg	02013-08-24August 24
3 ! Bronze	Dmytro Hrachov, Viktor Ruban, Oleksandr Serdyuk	Archery	Men's team	02013-08-21August 21
3 ! Bronze	Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova	Athletics	Women's 400 m hurdles	02013-08-25August 25
3 ! Bronze	Vita Styopina	Athletics	Women's high jump	02013-08-28August 28
3 ! Bronze	Hanna Balabanova, Olena Cherevatova, Inna Osypenko, Tetyana Semykina	Canoeing	Women's K-4 500 m	02013-08-27August 27
3 ! Bronze	Vladislav Tretiak	Fencing	Men's sabre	02013-08-14August 14
3 ! Bronze	Anna Bessonova	Gymnastics	Women's rhythmic individual all-around	02013-08-29August 29
3 ! Bronze	women's national handball team, UkraineUkraine women's national handball team Anastasiya Borodina   Galyna Markushevska   Ganna Siukalo Nataliya Borysenko   Olena Radchenko   Olena Tsygitsa Ganna Burmystrova   Oxana Rayhel   Maryna Vergelyuk Iryna Honcharova   Lyudmyla Shevchenko   Olena Yatsenko Nataliya Lyapina   Tetyana Shynkarenko   Larysa Zaspa	Handball	Women's competition	August 29
3 ! Bronze	Serhiy Biloushchenko, Serhiy Hryn, Oleh Lykov, Leonid Shaposhnykov	Rowing	Men's quadruple sculls	02013-08-22August 22
3 ! Bronze	Andriy Serdinov	Swimming	Men's 100 m butterfly	02013-08-20August 20

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Men's individual:

• Viktor Ruban - men's individual, 13th place
• Oleksandr Serdyuk - men's individual, 15th place
• Dmytro Hrachov - men's individual, 24th place

Women's individual:

• Tetyana Berezhna - women's individual, 18th place
• Kateryna Palekha - women's individual, 33rd place
• Nataliya Burdeyna - women's individual, 55th place

Men's team:

• Dmytro Hrachov, Viktor Ruban, and Oleksandr Serdyuk - men's team, bronze medal

Women's team:

• Tetyana Berezhna, Nataliya Burdeyna, and Kateryna Palekha - women's team, 6th place

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Women's 100 metres:

• Zhanna Block - Semifinal, 11.23 s (did not advance)
• Tetyana Tkalich - Round 1, 11.58 s (did not advance)

Men's 110 meter hurdles:

• Sergiy Demidyuk - Round 1, 13.80 s (did not advance)

Women's 100 metre hurdles:

• Olena Krasovska - Final, 12.45 s (silver medal)

Women's 200 metres:

• Maryna Maydanova - Round 1: 22.76 s, Round 2: 22.86 s, Semifinal: 22.75 s

Women's 400 metres:

• Antonina Yefremova - Round 1: 51.53 s, Semifinal: 51.90 s

Women's 400 metre hurdles:

• Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova - Round 1: 54.63 s, Semifinal: 53.37 s (NR), Final: 53.44 s (bronze medal)

Men's 800 metres:

• Ivan Heshko - Round 1, 1:46.7 (did not advance)

Women's 800 metres:

• Tetyana Petlyuk - Round 1: 2:02.07, Semifinal: 1:59.48

Men's 1500 metres:

• Ivan Heshko - Final, 3:35.82 (5th place)

Women's 1500 metres:

• Nataliya Sydorenko Tobias - Round 1: 4:06.06, Semifinal: 4:07.55
• Nelya Neporadna - Round 1: 4:08.60
• Iryna Lishchynska - Round 1: DNF

Men's 3000 metre steeplechase:

• Vadym Slobodenyuk - Round 1, 8:24.84 (did not advance)

Men's 5000 metres:

• Serhiy Lebid - Round 1, 14:10.23 (did not advance)

Women's 10000 metres:

• Natalya Berkut - DNF

Women's 4x100 metre relay:

• Zhanna Block, Tetyana Tkalich, Maryna Maydanova, and Iryna Kozhemyakina - Round 1: 43.77 s (13th place)

Men's 4x400 metre relay:

• Volodymyr Demchenko, Yevgeniy Zyukov, Myhaylo Knysh, and Andriy Tverdostup - Round 1, 3:04.01 (did not advance)

Women's 4x400 metre relay:

• Oleksandra Ryzhkova, Oksana Ilyushkina, Antonina Yefremova, and Natalya Pygyda - Round 1: 3:28.62 (13th place)

Women's Heptathlon:

• Natalya Dobrynska - 6255 points (8th place)
• Yuliya Akulenko - 5996 points (23rd place)

Men's Marathon:

• Dmytro Baranovskyy - DNF

Women's 20 km walk:

• Vira Zozulya - 1:38:45 (42nd place)

Men's long jump:

• Volodymyr Zyuskov - Round 1, 7.88 metres (did not advance)
• Oleksiy Lukashevych - Round 1, DNS (did not advance)

Men's triple jump:

• Mykola Savolanen - Round 1, 16.56 metres (did not advance)
• Viktor Yastrebov - Round 1, 16.43 metres (did not advance)

Women's triple jump:

• Olena Hovorova - Round 1: 14.56 metres, Final: 14.35 metres (10th place)
• Tetyana Shchurenko - Round 1: 13.55 metres (did not advance)

Men's high jump:

• Andriy Sokolovskyy - Final, 2.32 metres (5th place)

Women's high jump:

• Viktoriya Styopina - Round 1: 1.95 metres, Final: 2.02 metres (bronze medal)
• Iryna Mykhalchenko - Round 1: 1.95 metres, Final: 1.96 metres (5th place)
• Inha Babakova - Round 1: 1.92 metres, Final: 1.93 metres (9th place)

Men's pole vault:

• Denys Yurchenko - Final, 5.65 metres (9th place)
• Ruslan Yeremenko - Final, 5.55 metres (13th place)
• Oleksandr Korchmid - Final, 5.55 metres (16th place)

Women's pole vault:

• Anzhela Balakhonova - Round 1: 4.40 metres, Final: 4.40 metres (6th place)

Men's shot put:

• Yuriy Bilonoh - Final, 21.16 metres (gold medal)
• Roman Virastyuk - Round 1, 18.52 metres (did not advance)

Women's shot put:

• Oksana Zakharchuk - Round 1: 17.28 metres

Women's discus:

• Olena Antonova - Round 1: 64.20 metres, Final: 65.75 metres (5th place)
• Natalya Fokina - Round 1: 58.28 metres

Women's javelin:

• Tetyana Lyakhovych - Round 1: 63.07 metres (NR), Final: 61.75 metres (8th place)

Men's hammer:

• Oleksandr Krykun - Round 1, 75.42 metres (did not advance)
• Artem Rubanko - Round 1, 75.08 metres (did not advance)
• Vladyslav Piskunov - Round 1, no mark (did not advance)

Women's hammer:

• Iryna Sekachova - Round 1: 71.63 metres, Final: 70.40 metres (8th place)

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

The Ukrainian boxing team at the 2004 Olympics consisted of six boxers. Only one was defeated in his first bout as four of the six boxers advanced to the quarterfinals. They all lost there, keeping Ukraine from winning any boxing medals. The team's combined record was 8-6

Bantamweight (54 kg)

• Maksym Tretyak
  1. Round of 32 - Defeated Argenis Mendez of Dominican Republic, 30-24
  2. Round of 16 - Defeated Zsolt Bedak of Hungary, 27-24
  3. Quarterfinal - Lost to Aghasi Mammadov of Azerbaijan, 32-12

Lightweight (60 kg)

• Volodymyr Kravets
  1. Round of 32 - Lost to Asghar Ali Shah of Pakistan, 21-17

Welterweight (69 kg)

• Viktor Polyakov
  1. Round of 32 - Defeated Gerard O'Mahony of Australia, 54-27
  2. Round of 16 - Defeated Xavier Noel of France, 32-25
  3. Quarterfinal - Lost to Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan, outscored

Middleweight (75 kg)

• Oleg Maskin
  1. Round of 32 - Defeated Kotso Godfrey Motau of South Africa, 25-22
  2. Round of 16 - Defeated Lukas Wilaschek of Germany, 34-24
  3. Quarterfinal - Lost to Prasathinphimai Suriya of Thailand, 28-22

Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

• Andriy Fedchuk
  1. Round of 32 - Defeated Jitender Kumar of India, injury
  2. Round of 16 - Lost to Lei Yuping of China, 17-9

Super Heavyweight (over 91 kg)

• Aleksey Masikin
  1. Round of 16 - Defeated Aliaksandr Apanasionak of Belarus, 23-5
  2. Quarterfinal - Lost to Roberto Cammarelle of Italy, 23-21

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Men's C1 500 metres:

• Yuriy Cheban - semifinal, 15th place

Men's C1 1000 metres:

• Yuriy Cheban - semifinal, 19th place (DSQ)

Men's C2 500 metres:

• Maksym Prokopenko and Ruslan Dzhalilov - semifinal, 10th place

Men's C2 1000 metres:

• Maksym Prokopenko and Ruslan Dzhalilov - semifinal, 12th place

Women's K4 500 metres:

• Inna Osypenko, Tetyana Semykina, Hanna Balabanova, and Olena Cherevatova - final, bronze medal

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Road cycling

Men's road race:

• Serhiy Honchar - 21st place, 5:41:56
• Kyrylo Pospyeyev - 23rd place, 5:41:56
• Yaroslav Popovych - 68th place, 5:50:35
• Vladimir Duma - did not finish
• Yuriy Krivtsov - did not finish

Women's road race:

• Iryna Chuzhynova - 23rd place, 3:25:42
• Nataliya Kachalka - 36th place, 3:28:39
• Valentyna Karpenko - 43rd place, 3:33:35

Men's time trial:

• Yuriy Krivtsov - 11th place, 59:49.40
• Serhiy Honchar - 22nd place, 1:00:44.31

Women's time trial:

• Nataliya Kachalka - 24th place, 35:01.05

Track cycling

Men's individual pursuit:

• Volodymyr Dyuda - first round, 5th place

Men's team pursuit:

• Volodymyr Dyudya, Roman Kononenko, Sergiy Matveyev, and Vitlaiy Popkov - first round, 6th place

Men's points race:

• Vasyl Yakovlev - 19th place, 3 points

Women's points race:

• Lyudmyla Vypyraylo - 18th place, -20 points

Men's Madison:

• Volodymyr Rybin and Vasyl Yakovlev - 6th place, 9 points

Mountain biking

Men's cross country:

• Sergiy Rysenko - 36th place, 2:33:10

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Men's 3 metre springboard:

• Dmytro Lysenko - Prelim: 419.16, Semifinal: 219.57, Final: 410.07 (11th place)
• Yuriy Shlyakhov - Prelim: 377.19 (26th place)

Women's 3 metre springboard:

• Olena Fedorova - Prelim: 290.43, Semifinal: 212.85 (13th place)
• Ganna Sorokina - Prelim: 269.52, Semifinal: 204.63 (16th place)

Men's 10 metre platform:

• Anton Zakharov - semifinal, 16th place
• Roman Volodkov - preliminary, 21st place

Women's 10 metre platform:

• Olena Zhupina - final, 9th place
• Olga Leonova - preliminary, 23rd place

Men's synchronized 10 metre platform:

• Roman Volodokov and Anton Zakharov - 4th place, 357.66 points

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Ten fencers, eight men and two women, represented Ukraine in 2004.

Men's épée individual:

• Dmytro Kariuchenko - defeated in round of 16
• Maksym Khvorost - defeated in round of 32
• Bogdan Nikishin - defeated in round of 64

Women's épée individual:

• Nadiya Kazimirchuk - defeated in round of 32

Men's sabre individual:

• Vladislav Tretiak - bronze medal
• Vladimir Lukashenko - defeated in quarterfinals
• Vladimir Kalujny - defeated in round of 16

Women's sabre individual:

• Darya Nedeshkowskaia - defeated in round of 32

Men's épée team:

• Vitaliy Osharov, Bogdan Nikishin, and Dmytro Kariuchenko - 5th place

Men's sabre team:

• Oleg Shturbabin, Vladimir Kalujny, and Vladimir Lukashenko - 6th place

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Men's artistic: 7th place team

• Valeri Goncharov - advanced in two exercises
  • Parallel bars - gold medal
  • Horizontal bar - 8th place
• Roman Zozulya - advanced in one exercise
  • All-around - 10th place
• Ruslan Myezyentsev - advanced in one exercise
  • All-around - 16th place
• Evgeni Bogonosyuk - did not advance in any exercise
• Vadym Kuvakin - did not advance in any exercise
• Andrei Mykaylichenko - did not advance in any exercise

Women's artistic: 4th place team

• Irina Yarotska - advanced in one exercise
  • All-around - 6th place
• Alona Kvasha - advanced in one exercise
  • Vault - 6th place
• Alina Kozich - advanced in two exercises
  • Floor - 8th place
  • All-around - 11th place
• Mirabella Akhunu - did not advance in any exercise
• Iryna Krasnianska - did not advance in any exercise
• Olga Sherbatykh - did not advance in any exercise

Handball

Main article: Handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Women's: bronze medal

• Preliminary round: 4-0-0
• Quarterfinal: defeated Spain, 25-23
• Semifinal: lost to Denmark, 29-20
• Bronze medal match: defeated France, 21-18

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Men's 66 kg:

• Musa Nastuyev - defeated in round of 32

Men's 73 kg:

• Gennadiy Bilodid - defeated in quarterfinals; repechage round of 16

Men's 81 kg:

• Roman Gontyuk - silver medal; defeated in final

Men's 90 kg:

• Valentyn Grekov - defeated in round of 16

Men's 100 kg:

• Vitaliy Bubon - defeated in round of 32

Men's 100+ kg:

• Vitaliy Polyanskyy - defeated in round of 16; repechage round of 32

Women's 78 kg:

• Anastasiia Matrosova - defeated in semifinals; lost in repechage finals

Women's 78+ kg:

• Maryna Prokofyeva - defeated in quarterfinals; lost in repechage finals

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Women's Individual Competition:

• Victoria Tereshchuk - 7th place

Rhythmic gymnastics

Main article: Rhythmic gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Women's rhythmic:

• Individual
  • Anna Bessonova - bronze medal
  • Natalia Godunko - 5th place
• Team - 9th place
  • Maria Bila
  • Yulia Chernova
  • Olena Dzyubchuk
  • Yelyzaveta Karabash
  • Inga Kozhokhina (hoops and balls)
  • Oksana Paslas (ribbons)

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Men's Quadruple Sculls

• Serhiy Hryn
• Serhiy Biloushchenko
• Oleh Lykov
• Leonid Shaposhnykov

Women's Double Sculls

• Nataliya Huba
• Svetlana Maziy

Women's Quadruple Sculls

• Olena Ronzhyna
• Tetiana Kolesnikova
• Olena Olefirenko
• Iana Dementeva

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Synchronized swimming

Main article: Synchronized swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Trampolining

Main article: Trampolining at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Men's trampoline:

• Yuri Nikitin - gold medal

Women's trampoline:

• Olena Movchan - 5th place

Triathlon

Main article: Triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Men's:

• Vladimir Polikarpenko - 1:57:39.28 (30th place)
• Andriy Glushchenko - DNF

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Men's Middle-Heavyweight

• Anatoliy Mushyk

Men's Heavyweight

• Ihor Razoronov
• Mykola Hordiychuk

Men's Super-Heavyweight

• Hennadiy Krasylnykov
• Oleksiy Kolokoltsev

Women's Middleweight

• Nataliya Skakun

Women's Light-Heavyweight

• Vanda Maslovska

Women's Super-Heavyweight

• Viktoriya Shaimardanova
• Olha Korobka

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Officials

• President: Viktor Yanukovych
• Secretary General: Volodymyr Gerashchenko