Ukraine at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Ukraine
games=2004 Summer
competitors=239 (124 men and 115 women)
sports=23
flagbearer=Denys Sylantyev
officials=
gold=9
silver=5
bronze=9
total=23
rank=12

Ukraine competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Medalists

Gold

*Yuriy Bilonoh — Athletics, Men's Shot Put

*Valeriy Goncharov — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars

*Yuriy Nikitin — Gymnastics, Men's Trampoline Individual

*Olena Kostevych — Shooting, Women's 10m Air Pistol

*Yana Klochkova — Swimming, Women's 200m Individual Medley

*Yana Klochkova — Swimming, Women's 400m Individual Medley

*Nataliya Skakun — Weightlifting, Women's 63 kg

*Elbrus Tedeyev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle (66 kg)

*Irini Merleni — Wrestling, Women's Freestyle (48 kg)

Silver

*Olena Krasovka — Athletics, Women's 100m Hurdles

*Roman Gontyuk — Judo, Men's Half-Middleweight (81 kg)

*George Leonchuk and Rodion Luka — Sailing, Men's 49er Class

*Ganna Kalinina, Svitlana Matevusheva, and Ruslana Taran — Sailing, Women's Yngling

*Igor Razoronov — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight (105 kg)

Bronze

*Dmytro Hrachov, Viktor Ruban, Oleksandr Serdyuk — Archery, Men's Team Competition

*Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova — Athletics, Women's 400m Hurdles

*Viktoriya Syopina — Athletics, Women's High Jump

*Hanna Balabanova, Olena Cherevatova, Inna Osypenko, and Tetyana Semykina — Canoeing, Women's K4 500m

*Vladislav Tretiak — Fencing, Men's Individual Sabre

*Anna Bessonova — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around

*Anastasiya Borodina, Nataliya Borysenko, Ganna Burmystrova, Iryna Honcharova, Nataliya Lyapina, Galyna Markushevska, Olena Radchenko, Oxana Rayhel, Lyudmyla Shevchenko, Tetyana Shynkarenko, Ganna Siukalo, Olena Tsygitsa, Maryna Vergelyuk, Olena Yatsenko, and Larysa Zaspa — Handball, Women's Team Competition

*Sergij Bilushchenko, Sergij Grin, Oleg Lykov, and Leonid Shaposhnikov — Rowing, Men's Quadruple Cculls

*Andriy Serdinov — Swimming, Men's 100m Butterfly

Results by event

=Archery=

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=

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 Bilonog - 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=

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 (54kg)
* Maksym Tretyak
*# Round of 32 - Defeated Argenis Mendez of Dominican Republic, 30-24
*# Round of 16 - Defeated Zsolt Bedak of Hungary, 27-24
*# Quarterfinal - Lost to Aghasi Mammadov of Azerbaijan, 32-12

Lightweight (60kg)
* Volodymyr Kravets
*# Round of 32 - Lost to Asghar Ali Shah of Pakistan, 21-17

Welterweight (69kg)
* Viktor Polyakov
*# Round of 32 - Defeated Gerard O'Mahony of Australia, 54-27
*# Round of 16 - Defeated Xavier Noel of France, 32-25
*# Quarterfinal - Lost to Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan, outscored

Middleweight (75kg)
* Oleg Maskin
*# Round of 32 - Defeated Kotso Godfrey Motau of South Africa, 25-22
*# Round of 16 - Defeated Lukas Wilaschek of Germany, 34-24
*# Quarterfinal - Lost to Prasathinphimai Suriya of Thailand, 28-22

Light Heavyweight (81kg)
* Andriy Fedchuk
*# Round of 32 - Defeated Jitender Kumar of India, injury
*# Round of 16 - Lost to Lei Yuping of China, 17-9

Super Heavyweight (over 91kg)
* Oleksii Mazikin
*# Round of 16 - Defeated Aliaksandr Apanasionak of Belarus, 23-5
*# Quarterfinal - Lost to Roberto Cammarelle of Italy, 23-21

=Canoeing=

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=

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=

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=

Men's épée individual:
* Dmittiy Karuchenko - 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:
* Vitaly Osharov, Bogdan Nikishin, and Dmittiy Karuchenko - 5th place

Men's sabre team:
* Oleg Shturbabin, Vladimir Kalujny, and Vladimir Lukashenko - 6th place

=Gymnastics=

Men's artistic: 7th place team
* Valeri Goncharov - advanced in two exercises
** Parallel bars - gold medal
** Horizontal bar - 8th place
* Roman Zozulia - 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

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)

Men's trampoline:
* Yuri Nikitin - gold medal

Women's trampoline:
* Olena Movchan - 5th place

=Handball=

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=

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=

Women's Individual Competition:
* Viktoriya Tereshchuk - 7th place

=Rowing=

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

=Triathlon=

Ukraine again sent the same two triathletes to the Olympics in 2004. They did not do as well as they had four years earlier.

Men's:
* Vladimir Polikarpenko - 1:57:39.28 (30th place)
* Andriy Glushchenko - DNF

Officials

*President: Viktor Yanukovych
*Secretary General: Volodymyr Gerashchenko

References

* [http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/UKR/summer/2004/ sports-reference]