Ukrainian athlete Yaroslava Mahuchikh has won a bronze medal in the high jump at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
The 19-year-old Ukrainian has showed a result of 2.00 m.
Three-time world champion Russian Mariya Lasitskene has won with a result of 2.04 m, and Nicola McDermott has showed a result of 2.02 m.
Two other Ukrainian jumpers Iryna Gerashchenko and Yulia Levchenko have taken 4th and 8th places, respectively.
The Olympic Games in Tokyo are held from July 23 to August 8. The Ukrainian team has already won 18 medals: one gold, five silver and 12 bronze medals.
Ukrainian athletes Anastasia Savchuk and Marta Fedyna received a bronze medal in artistic swimming duets at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
“Anastasia Savchuk and Marta Fedyna ranked third in duets and receive the first artistic swimming award for Ukraine at the Olympic Games. History is happening before our eyes,” the press service of the National Olympic Committee said.
Ukrainian Alla Cherkasova at the Tokyo Olympics won the bronze medal competition in freestyle wrestling (up to 68 kg), having defeated Japanese woman, Rio Olympic champion Sara Dosho and took the third place in the standings.
The fight between the athletes began at 20:55 local time. The Ukrainian won a clear victory, having won the sixth bronze medal for the Ukrainian team at the Tokyo Olympics.
Earlier it became known that Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestlers Zhan Beleniuk and Parviz Nasibov defeated their rivals in the semifinals at the Tokyo Olympics and advanced to the final of the competition, securing a minimum of silver.
In addition, Ukrainian athlete Iryna Koliadenko, who lost in the semifinals, losing to Kyrgyz athlete Aisuluu Tynybekova, will also fight for a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling (weight up to 62 kg).
The Olympic Games in Tokyo are held from July 23 to August 8. Ukraine has already won one silver and six bronze medals.
Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina won the women’s singles bronze medal match at the Tokyo Olympics.
According to the website of the Olympics, Svitolina defeated her opponent, the representative of Kazakhstan, Elena Rybakina, following the results of three sets with a score of 6:1, 6:7, 4:6.
This is the fifth medal received by the Ukrainian team. As reported, earlier medals in their disciplines were won by shooters Olena Kostevych and Oleh Omelchuk, who became bronze medalists of the Olympics in shooting from a pneumatic pistol from ten meters, epee fencer Ihor Reizlin, judoka Daria Bilodid and swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk, who won bronze in the 800 swim meters freestyle.
Ukrainian swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk has won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in the 800-m freestyle, by which he set an Olympic record earlier, the Ministry of Youth and Sports said.
“Mykhailo Romanchuk brings Ukraine the fourth bronze at the 2020 Olympic Games! Mykhailo Romanchuk finished third in the final 800-meter freestyle. The Ukrainian showed a time of 7.42.33,” the ministry said on its Facebook page on Thursday morning.
The ministry noted that there was another Ukrainian together with Romanchuk, who qualified in the top eight, Serhiy Frolov, with a time of 7.45,11 came sixth in the final.
“I have been heading for this award for 18 years. From the age of 6, when I started swimming and came to my coach Petro Nahorny, together with whom I managed to achieve all the results. Of course, nothing of this would have happened without him,” the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine quoted Romanchuk as saying.
Romanchuk added that “it was a very difficult and unusual final. I really hoped to improve my Olympic record, which I set in the semifinal. But I am glad that it was never surpassed.”
