Jean Beleniuk won a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in the 87 kg weight category at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
The athlete defeated the representative of Poland Arkadiusz Kulinich – 3:1.
The fight was the last in Beleniuk’s sports career – he is the Olympic champion of 2020, silver medalist of the 2016 Olympics.
Now the Ukrainian Olympians have 10 medals at the Games in Paris (3+3+4).
Ukrainian athlete Mykhailo Kokhan won a bronze medal in the hammer throw final at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Kokhan threw the projectile 79 meters 39 cm. Canadian Ethan Katzberg became the Olympic champion with a distance of 84 m 12 cm, and Hungarian Halas Benze took second place with a distance of 79 m 97 cm.
Ukrainian Liudmyla Luzan won a bronze medal in the single canoe competition at the Tokyo Olympics, finishing third in the final at a distance of 200 meters.
As the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine said on Facebook, the result of Luzan in the final is 47.034.
The athlete confidently passed the semifinals of the Olympics with the best result among her rivals of 47.339, but in the final she lost to the representatives of the United States (45.932) and Canada (46.786).
Now, Ukraine has one gold medal, two silver and nine bronze medals.
Ukrainian athlete Daria Bilodid in the weight category up to 48 kg brought Ukraine the first Olympic medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
According to the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, this is the first award in women’s judo in the history of independent Ukraine.
“Already in the first fight at her debut Games, the 20-year-old Ukrainian made all her fans jittery, but in the last seconds of the meeting she managed to win in Milica Nikolić from Serbia. The last world championships, Bilodid against Japan’s Funa Tonaki, unfortunately, in the second minute of extra time, the Ukrainian lost and lost the chance to get to the final,” the committee.
Thus, already in the battle for the “bronze” Bilodid with Shira Rishony from Israel won. This is the first medal of the Ukrainian national team at the 2020 Olympic Games.
The 2020 Olympics officially kicked off on July 23 and will run until August 8.
The Games were originally supposed to take place last year, but have been postponed due to coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Ukrainian women’s biathlon team consisting of Anastasia Merkushyna, Yulia Dzhyma, Vita Semerenko and Olena Pidhrushna has won the bronze medal in the relay race (4×6 km) at the World Championship in Italian Antholz-Anterselva. Ukrainians’ good shooting and the rivals’ mistakes allowed Pidhrushna in the fourth stage to leave the shooting range to the last lap of the second, noticeably behind the Norwegians following the third relay gold in this Championship and slightly ahead of rivals from several other teams.
A representative of the German national team beat Pidhrushna before the finish. At the same time, the Ukrainian woman did not let the next athletes from the Czech Republic and Sweden go.
This is the first medal of Ukrainian athletes in this championship.
The Norwegian team won gold, and Germany took the second place.
The relay race among men will also take place on Saturday, and the World Championship is to end on Sunday with mass starts.
The Ukrainian men’s national squash team has won a bronze medal in the European Team Championships Division 3 in Lisbon (Portugal), the Squash Federation of Ukraine has said on its website.
The Ukrainian squad defeated the Norwegian team with a 2-1 score in the match for the third place.
Squash veterans Kostiantyn Rybalchenko and Valeriy Fedoruk, along with young members Yaroslav Bagan, Dmytro Pogrebniak, and Artur Sikora were members of Ukraine’s team.
Team statistics and the final tally are below:
Playoffs matches
Match for places 1-8
Ukraine – Slovenia: 4-0
Valeriy Fedoruk – Martin Mosnik, 3-0 (11-7, 11-6, 11-5)
Yaroslav Bagan – Mark Hafner, 3-1 (11-13, 11-8, 11-5, 5-11, 11-7)
Kostiantyn Rybalchenko – Blaž Porenta, 3-0 (11-6, 11-3, 11-8)
Artur Sikora – Jošt Dolinar, 3-0 (11-4, 11-6, 11-5)
Match for places 1-8
Ukraine – Poland: 1-2
Valery Fedoruk – Adam Pelczynski, 3-1 (11-3, 5-11, 11-6, 11-3)
Yaroslav Bagan – Adrian Marszał, 0-3 (4-11, 4-11, 2-11)
Kostiantyn Rybalchenko – Piotr Hemmerling, 2-2 (11–4, 5–11, 17–15, 8–11)
Artur Sikora – Filip Jarota, 0-3 (8-11, 9-11, 9-11)
Match for 3rd place
Ukraine –Norway: 2-1
Valeriy Fedoruk – Sindre S. Roaldsøy, 3-0 (11-6, 11-4, 11-4)
Yaroslav Bagan – Trym Aasness, 0-3 (7-11, 3-11, 8-11)
Kostiantyn Rybalchenko – Gard Aasness, 3-0 (12-10, 11-7, 11-5)
Artur Sikora – Patrick Hansen, 2-2 (7-11, 7-11, 11-9, 11-8)
The final standing of the teams:
Poland
Austria
Ukraine
Norway
Russia
Luxembourg
Slovenia
Malta
