Ukraine announces the squad for the 2024 Paralympics
24 August 2024 06:32
Ukraine’s Paralympic team has announced the list of athletes who will represent the country at the competition in Paris. This was reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to the National Paralympic Committee.
At the upcoming Paralympics, Ukraine will be represented by 145 athletes in 17 out of 22 sports. This is the largest delegation of Ukrainian Paralympians in the history of the national team’s participation in these competitions.
- Here is the list of athletes by sport:
- parabadminton – Oksana Kozina, Alexander Chirkov;
- boccia – Artem Kolinko, Natalia Kononenko;
- coxed pair – Anna Aisanova, Daria Kotik, Yaroslav Koyuda, Roman Polyansky, Stanislav Samolyuk, Anna Sheremet;
- aravel sport – Pavlo Bal, Yegor Dementiev;
- sitting volleyball – Anatolii Andrusenko, Denys Bytchenko, Ruslan Goryakin, Oleksandr Drapak, Yurii Kovalchuk, Yevhenii Korinets, Dmytro Melnyk, Maksym Petrenchuk, Andrii Pryschepa, Roman Pryschepa, Andrii Sikalskyi, Oleksii Kharlamov.
- goalball – Rodion Zhigalin, Vasyl Oliynyk, Fedir Sydorenko, Anton Strelchyk, Oleksandr Toporkov, Yevhen Tsyganenko;
- paralympic judo – Anzhela Gavrysyuk, Anastasia Garnik, Yulia Ivanitskaya, Alexander Nazarenko, Natalia Nikolaychik, David Khorava;
- pair athletics – Vladyslav Bilyi, Oksana Boturchuk, Liudmyla Danylina, Roman Danyliuk, Oleksandr Doroshenko, Mykola Zhabniak, Vladyslav Zahrebelnyi, Oksana Zubkovska, Nataliia Kobzar, Maksym Koval, Oleksandr Lytvynenko, Anastasiia Mysnyk, Anastasiia Moskalenko, Roman Novak, Zoya Ovsiy, Yaroslav Okapinsky, Roman Pavlyk, Svitlana Piven, Maria Pomazan, Volodymyr Ponomarenko, Mykola Raiskyi, Ivan Tetyukhin, Ihor Tsvetov, Maria Shpatkivska, Viktoriia Shpachynska, Yuliia Shulyar, Oleksandr Yarovyi, Mykyta Barabanov;
- canoeing – Vladislav Epifanov, Andriy Kryvchun, Natalia Lagutenko, Maria Mazhula, Mykola Syniuk;
- paratriathlon – Alisa Kolpakchi;
- para-powerlifting – Yuriy Babynets, Anton Kryukov, Natalia Oliynyk, Kostiantyn Panasiuk;
- parasailing – Yevhenii Bohodayko, Yurii Bozhynskyi, Roman Bondarenko, Dmytro Vanzenko, Dmytro Vasylenko, Maksym Veraksa, Maryna Verbova, Dmytro Vinohradets, Oleksii Virchenko, Kyrylo Harashchenko, Anna Hontar, Bohdan Hrynenko, Yaroslav Denysenko, Andrii Drapkin, Serhii Klippert, Anton Kol, Oleksandr Komarov, Veronika Korzhova, Maksym Krainyk, Angelina Maltseva, Roman Mychka, Ihor Nimchenko, Denys Ostapchenko, Serhii Palamarchuk, Maryna Piddubna, Iryna Poyda, Yaroslav Semenenko, Danylo Semenikhin, Mykhailo Serbin, Anna Stetsenko, Dmytro Sukhanov, Kateryna Tkachuk, Andrii Trusov, Oleksii Fedyna, Danylo Chufarov, Yurii Shengur, Ilya Yaremenko;
- pair shooting – Oleksii Denysiuk, Andrii Doroshenko, Vasyl Kovalchuk, Iryna Liakhu, Vitalii Plakushchyi, Iryna Shchetnik;
- archery pair – Serhii Atamanenko, Vasyl Naumchuk, Ruslan Tsymbaliuk, Anna-Viktoria Shevchenko;
- table tennis pair – Viktor Didukh, Oleksandr Yezyk, Lev Katz, Natalia Kosmina, Marina Litovchenko, Ivan May, Maksym Nikolenko, Vasyl Petruniv, Iryna Shynkariova;
- parathlon – Yulia Lipetskaya;
- wheelchair fencing – Yevheniia Breus, Anton Datsko, Andrii Demchuk, Nadiia Dyolog, Artem Manko, Nataliia Morkvych, Oleh Naumenko, Dmytro Seriozhenko, Olena Fedota-Isaieva.
The committee emphasises that this is the largest delegation of Ukrainian Paralympians in the history of the national team’s participation in these competitions. For example, at the Tokyo Paralympics, Ukraine was represented in 15 sports.
The Paralympics in Paris will start on 28 August and run until 6 September. At the previous competitions in Tokyo, Ukraine took 6th place in the medal standings, winning 98 medals, including 24 gold.
