Ukraine at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Ukraine
games=1996 Summer
competitors=231 (146 men and 85 women)
sports=21
flagbearer=Sergey Bubka
gold=9
silver=2
bronze=12
total=23
rank=9

Ukraine competed in the Summer Olympic Games as an independent nation for the first time at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Previously, Ukrainian athletes competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Gold

* Inessa Kravets — Athletics, Women's Triple Jump

* Wladimir Klitschko — Boxing, Men's Super Heavyweight

* Rustam Sharipov — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars

* Lilia Podkopayeva — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual

* Lilia Podkopayeva — Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercises

* Ekaterina Serebryanskaya — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around

* Timur Taymazov — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight (108 kg)

* Vyacheslav Oleynyk — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight (90 kg)

* Yevhen Braslavets and Ihor Matviyenko — Sailing, Men's 470 Team Competition

Silver

* Lilia Podkopayeva — Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam

* Inna Frolova, Svetlana Maziy, Dina Myftakhutdinova, and Olena Ronzhyna — Rowing, Women's Quadruple Sculls

Bronze

* Olena Sadovnycha — Archery, Women's Individual Competition

* Aleksandr Bagach — Athletics, Men's Shot Put

* Oleksiy Krykun — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw

* Inga Babakhova — Athletics, Women's High Jump

* Oleg Kiryukhin — Boxing, Men's Light Flyweight

* Igor Korobchinsky, Oleg Kosiak, Grigory Misyutin, Vladimir Shamenko, Rustam Sharipov, Alexandre Svetlichnyi, and Yuri Yermakov — Gymnastics, Men's Team Combined Exercises

* Elena Vitrichenko — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around

* Denis Gotfrid — Weightlifting, Men's 99 kg

* Andriy Kalashniroz — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight (52 kg)

* Elbrus Tedeyev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Featherweight (62 kg)

* Zaza Zazirov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Lightweight (68 kg)

* Olena Pakholchik and Ruslana Taran — Sailing, Women's 470 Team Competition

Results by event

=Archery=

Women's Individual Competition:
* Olena Sadovnycha → Bronze Medal Match, Bronze Medal (5-1)
* Lina Herasymenko → Round of 32, 23rd place (1-1)
* Natalya Bilukha → Round of 64, 55th place (0-1)

Men's Individual Competition:
* Stanislav Zabrodsky → Round of 16, 13th place (2-1)
* Valeriy Yevetsky → Round of 32, 31st place (1-1)
* Aleksandr Yatsenko → Round of 64, 57th place (0-1)

Women's Team Competition:
* Sadovnycha, Herasymenko, and Bilukha → Quarterfinal, 5th place (1-1)

Men's Team Competition:
* Zabrodsky, Yevetsky, and Yatsenko → Quarterfinal, 7th place (1-1)

=Athletics=

Men's 100 metres
*Serhiy Osovych
*Kostya Rurak

Men's 200 metres
*Vladyslav Dologodin

Men's 1,500 metres
* Andriy Bulkovskiy:* Qualification — 3:53.20 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4×100 metres Relay
*Kostya Rurak, Serhiy Osovych, Oleh Kramarenko, and Vladyslav Dologodin:* Qualification — 38.90:* Semifinals — 38.56:* Final — 38.55 (→ 4th place)

Men's Marathon
* Peter Sarafinyuk — 2:20.37 (→ 43rd place)

Men's 50km Walk
* Vitaliy Popovych

Men's High Jump
* Vyacheslav Tyrtyshnik

Men's Long Jump
* Vitaliy Kirilenko:* Qualification — 7.77m (→ did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump
* Volodymyr Kravchenko

Men's Pole Vault
* Sergey Bubka:* Qualification — did not start (→ no ranking)

* Vasiliy Bubka:* Qualification — no mark (→ no ranking)

Men's Decathlon
* Vitaliy Kolpakov :* Final Result — 8025 points (→ 22nd place)

Men's Shot Put
* Aleksandr Bagach:* Qualification — 20.23m :* Final — 20.75m (→ Bronze Medal)

* Roman Virastyuk:* Qualification — 19.81m :* Final — 20.45m (→ 6th place)

* Oleksandr Klymenko:* Qualification — 19.45m :* Final — no mark (→ no ranking)

Men's Discus Throw
* Vitaliy Sidorov:* Qualification — 63.42m:* Final — 63.78m (→ 7th place)

* Andriy Kokhanovskiy:* Qualification — 57.90m (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw
* Oleksiy Krykun:* Qualification — 75.78m:* Final — 80.02m (→ Bronze Medal)

* Andriy Skvaruk:* Qualification — 77.48m:* Final — 79.92m (→ 4th place)
Women's 100 metres
*Zhanna Pintusevych
*Iryna Pukha

Women's 200 metres
*Zhanna Pintusevych
*Viktoriya Fomenko

Women's 400 metres
*Iana Manuylova
*Olena Rurak

Women's 4x400 metres Relay
* Viktoriya Fomenko, Lyudmyla Koshchey, Yana Manuylova, and Olha Moroz:* Qualification — 3:28.16 (→ did not advance)

Women's 400m Hurdles
*Tetyana Tereshchuk:* Qualification — 55.82:* Semifinals — 55.34 (→ did not advance)

Women's Long Jump
* Iryna Chekhovtsova:* Qualification — 6.70m :* Final — 6.97m (→ 5th place)

*Inessa Kravets:* Qualification — NM (→ did not advance)

*Viktoriya Vershynina:* Qualification — NM (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump
* Inha Babakova:* Qualification — 1.93m:* Final — 2.01m (→ Bronze Medal)

* Vita Styopina:* Qualification — 1.85m (→ did not advance)

Women's Triple Jump
* Inessa Kravets:* Qualification — 14.57m:* Final — 15.33m (→ Gold Medal)

* Olena Hovorova:* Qualification — 14.60m:* Final — 14.09m (→ 10th place)

* Olena Khlusovych:* Qualification — 14.38m:* Final — 13.81m (→ 12th place)

Women's Discus Throw
* Olena Antonova :* Qualification — 57.92m (→ did not advance)

Women's Shot Put
* Vita Pavlysh:* Qualification — 19.04m:* Final — 19.30m (→ 4th place)

* Valentyna Fedyushyna:* Qualification — 19.22m:* Final — 17.99m (→ 12th place)

Women's Marathon
* Lyubov Klochko — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's 10km Walk
* Tatyana Ragozina — 46:25 (→ 30th place)

=Boxing=

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)
*Oleg Kiryukhin → Bronze Medal:* First Round — Defeated Abdul Rashid Qambrani (Pakistan), 17-3:* Second Round — Defeated Beibis Mendoza (Colombia), 18-6 :* Quarterfinals — Defeated Albert Guardado (United States), 19-14 :* Semifinals — Lost to Daniel Petrov (Bulgaria), 8-17

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)
*Serhiy Kovganko:* First Round — Defeated Darwin Angeles (Honduras), 12-6 :* Second Round — Lost to Bolat Djumadilov (Kazakhstan), 4-21

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)
*Evgenii Shestakov:* First Round — Lost to Serafim Todorov (Bulgaria), 4-11

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)
*Sergiy Dzindziruk:* First Round — Defeated Jangphonak Parkpoom (Thailand), 20-10 :* Second Round — Lost to Hasan Al (Denmark), 4-10

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)
*Serguei Gorodnychov:* First Round — Defeated Albert Eromosele (Nigeria), 18-4 :* Second Round — Lost to Alfredo Duvergel (Cuba), 2-15

Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)
*Rostyslav Zaulychnyi:* First Round — Lost to Timur Ibragimov (Uzbekistan), 3-7

Men's Super Heavyweight (> 91 kg)
*Wladimir Klitschko → Gold Medal:* First Round — Bye:* Second Round — Defeated Lawrence Clay-Bey (United States), 10-8:* Quarterfinals — Defeated Attila Levin (Sweden), referee stopped contest in first round:* Semifinals — Defeated Alexei Lezin (Russia), 4-1:* Final — Defeated Paea Wolfgramm (Tonga), 7-3

=Cycling=

Road Competition

Women's Individual Road Race
*Natalya Kishchuk :* Final — 02:37:06 (→ 30th place)

Track Competition

Men's Points Race
* Vasyl Yakovlev:* Final — 24 points (→ 4th place)

=Diving=

Men's 3m Springboard
*Roman Volod'kov:* Preliminary Heat — 359.85:* Semi Final — 210.30:* Final — 382.83 (→ 11th place)

*Maksym Lapyn:* Preliminary Heat — 328.23 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Women's 3m Springboard
*Olena Zhupina:* Preliminary Heat — 286.47:* Semi Final — 209.55:* Final — 297.72 (→ 5th place)

*Iryna Pissareva:* Preliminary Heat — 269.43:* Semi Final — 211.23:* Final — 236.79 (→ 12th place)

Women's 10m Platform
*Olena Zhupina:* Preliminary Heat — 280.11:* Semi Final — 171.24:* Final — 265.77 (→ 6th place)

=Modern pentathlon=

Men's Individual Competition:
* Heorhiy Chymerys — 5154 pts (→ 24th place)

=Rowing=

Men's Single Sculls
* Oleksandr Khimich

Men's Quadruple Sculls
* Oleksandr Marchenko
* Oleksandr Zaskalko
* Mykola Chupryna
* Leonid Shaposhnykov

Men's Coxed Eights
* Yevhen Sharonin
* Roman Hrynevych
* Vitaliy Rayvsky
* Valeriy Samara
* Oleh Lykov
* Ihor Martynenko
* Ihor Mohylniy
* Oleksandr Kapustin
* Hrihoriy Dmytrenko

Women's Double Sculls
* Tetyana Ustyuzhanina
* Olena Reutova

Women's Quadruple Sculls
* Olena Ronzhyna
* Inna Frolova
* Svetlana Maziy
* Dina Myftakhutdinova

=Swimming=

Men's 50 m Freestyle
* Yury Vlasov
*# Heat – 22.77
*# B-Final – 22.82 (→ 11th place)

* Pavel Khnykin
*# Heat – 22.91 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Men's 100 m Freestyle
* Pavel Khnykin
*# Heat – 49.69
*# Final – 49.65 (→ 6th place)

* Rostislav Svanidze
*# Heat – 50.31
*# B-Final – 50.43 (→ 14th place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle
* Igor Snitko
*# Heat – 3:55.67
*# B-Final – 3:54.63 (→ 12th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle
* Igor Snitko
*# Heat – 15:31.40 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

* Denis Zavhorodny
*# Heat – 15:46.79 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke
* Volodymyr Nikolaychuk
*# Heat – 56.71 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke
* Alexander Dzhaburiya
*# Heat – 1:02.70
*# B-Final – 1:02.91 (→ 13th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke
* Dimitri Ivanusa
*# Heat – 2:17.54 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly
* Pavel Khnykin
*# Heat – 53.25
*# Final – 53.58 (→ 8th place)

* Denys Sylant'yev
*# Heat – 54.33 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly
* Denys Sylant'yev
*# Heat – 1:58.04
*# Final – 1:58.37 (→ 6th place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley
* Sergei Sergeev
*# Heat – 2:06.30 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Men's 4x100 m Medley Relay
* Volodymyr Nikolaychuk, Oleksandr Dzhaburiya, Denys Sylant'yev, and Pavel Khnykin
*# Heat – 3:42.29 (→ did not advance, 9th place)
Women's 200 m Freestyle
* Elena Lapunova
*# Heat – 2:04.07 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke
* Svetlana Bondarenko
*# Heat – 1:09.79
*# Final – 1:09.21 (→ 4th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke
* Svetlana Bondarenko
*# Heat – 2:32.42
*# B-Final – scratched

Women's 100 m Butterfly
* Natalia Zolotukhina
*# Heat – 1:02.18 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly
* Natalia Zolotukhina
*# Heat – 2:16.68 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley
* Elena Lapunova
*# Heat – 2:20.76 (→ did not advance, 29th place)

=Volleyball=

Women's Indoor Team Competition

*Preliminary Round (Group A):* Lost to United States (0-3):* Lost to Japan (0-3):* Lost to South Korea (0-3):* Lost to China (0-3):* Lost to Netherlands (0-3)
*Quarterfinals:* did not advance (→ Eleventh place)
*Team Roster:*Nataliya Bozhenova :*Yuliya Buyeva :*Olexandra Fomina :*Tetyana Ivanyushkyna :*Olga Kolomiyets :*Alla Kravets :*Olena Kryvonossova :*Vita Mateshik :*Regina Mylosserdova :*Olga Pavlova :*Mariya Polyakova :*Olena Sydorenko
*Head Coach: Gariy Iegiazarov

=Water Polo=

Men's Team Competition

*Preliminary Round (Group B):* Ukraine – Romania 6-6:* Ukraine – Italy 6-8:* Ukraine – United States 7-9:* Ukraine – Croatia 8-16:* Ukraine – Greece 6-9
*Classification Matches:* 9th/12th place: Ukraine – Germany 4-10:* 9th/12th place: Ukraine – Romania 8-11:* 9th/12th place: Ukraine – Netherlands 9-9 (→ Twelfth place)
*Team Roster:*Andriy Kovalenko:*Dmytro Andreyev :*Ihor Horbach :*Vadym Kebalo:*Vitaliy Khalchaytsky :*Vyacheslav Kostanda :*Oleksandr Potulnytsky :*Vadym Rozhdestvensky :*Vadym Skuratov :*Anatoliy Solodun:*Dmytro Stratan:*Oleh Vladymyrov:*Oleksiy Yegorov

=Weightlifting=

Men's Light-Heavyweight
*Oleksandr Blyshchyk:* Final — 167.5 + — (→ no ranking)

Men's 108 kg
*Timour Taimazov :*Snatch — 195.0 kg:*Clean & Jerk — 235.0 kg:*Total — 430.0 kg (→ Gold Medal)

*Ihor Razorenov :*Snatch — no mark:*Clean & Jerk — no mark:*Total — no mark (→ no ranking)

References

*cite book |title=The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume III The Competition Results |author=(ed.) Watkins, Ginger T. |publisher=Peachtree Publishers |location=Atlanta |year=1997 |isbn=1-56145-150-9 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v3.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2008-02-05