History

Ukraine made its first Summer Olympic appearance in 1996, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and has competed ever since. The nation sends one of the largest delegations to the Olympics with over 200 athletes competing at each edition. The athletes compete in almost all sports available on the Olympic program with good representation in athletics, boxing, cycling, diving, fencing, gymnastics, judo, weightlifting and wrestling.

Ukraine has won at least one medal at each Olympics it has participated in. In total the nation has won around 120 medals across 16 sports. The most successful sports are gymnastics, athletics, boxing and wrestling. The most successful athlete competing for an independent Ukraine is swimmer Yana Klochkova whom won five medals. She won two gold medals each in women’s 200m individual medley (2000 & 2004) and 400m individual medley (2000 & 2004) and she won silver in the 800m freestyle (2000). In 2016 Ukraine won 11 medals.

Qualified Quotas

Archery

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s Individual	Veronika Marchenko
	Anastasia Pavlova
	Lidiia Sichenikova
Women’s Team	Veronika Marchenko Anastasia Pavlova Lidiia Sichenikova

Artistic Swimming

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s Team	Maryna Aleksiiva Vladyslava Aleksiiva Marta Fiedina Yana Nariezhna Kateryna Reznik Anastasiya Savchuk Alina Shynkarenko Yelyzaveta Yakhno
Women’s Duet	From Team Quota

Athletics

Men’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s 50km Walk	Ivan Banzeruk

Women’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s 800m	Nataliya Prishchepa
	Olha Lyakhova
Women’s 400m Hurdles	Anna Ryzhykova
Women’s 4x400m Relay	Kateryna Klymiuk Olha Lyakhova Tetyana Melnyk Hanna Ryzhykova
Women’s 20km Walk	Inna Kashina
Women’s Marathon	Viktoriya Khapilina
Women’s High Jump	Yaroslava Mahuchikh
	Iryna Gerashchenko
	Yaroslava Mahuchikh
Women’s Long Jump	Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk
Women’s Triple Jump	Olha Saladukha
Women’s Hammer Throw	Iryna Klymets

Canoeing

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s K1 Slalom	Viktoriia Us
Women’s K1 200m	Mariia Kichasova-Skoryk
Women’s K2 500m	Mariya Povkh Liudmyla Kuklinovska
Women’s K4 500m	Inna Hryshchun Mariia Kichasova-Skoryk Mariya Povkh Anastasiia Todorova
Men’s C2 1000m	Eduard Shemetylo Yurii Vandiuk
Women’s C2 500m	Liudmyla Luzan Anastasiia Chetverikova

Diving

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s 3m Springboard	Oleg Kolodiy
Women’s 3m Springboard	Viktoriya Kesar
Men’s 10m Platform	Oleksii Sereda
Women’s 10m Platform	Sofiya Lyskun

Equestrian

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Individual Jumping	From Team Quota
	From Team Quota
	From Team Quota
Team Jumping	Ferenc Szentirmai Horse: Valour Andre Schroder Horse: Allegro Ulrich Kirchhoff Horse: Al Pacino 62 Rene Tebbel Horse: Saxo de la Cour

Gymnastics

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Artistic Individual Events	From Team Quota
	From Team Quota
	From Team Quota
	From Team Quota
Women’s Artistic Individual Events	Diana Varinska
Men’s Artistic Team All-Around	Vladyslav Hryko Petro Pakhniuk Igor Radivilov Oleg Verniaiev Yevgen Yudenkov
Women’s Rhythmic Individual All-Around	Vlada Nikolchenko
	Khrystyna Pohranychna

Shooting

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s 10m Air Rifle	Oleh Tsarkov
Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol	Oleksandr Petriv
Women’s 25m Pistol	Olena Kostevych
Men’s 10m Air Pistol (1) (2)	Pavlo Korostylov
	Oleh Omelchuk
Women’s Skeet	Iryna Malovichko

Swimming

Men’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s 800m Freestyle	Mykhailo Romanchuk
	Sergii Frolov
Men’s 1500m Freestyle	Mykhailo Romanchuk
	Sergii Frolov
Men’s 200m Breaststroke	Mykyta Koptielov
Men’s 200m Butterfly	Denys Kesyl

Wrestling

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Freestyle -125kg	Oleksandr Khotsianivskyi
Men’s Greco-Roman -60kg	Lenur Temirov
Men’s Greco-Roman -87kg	Zhan Beleniuk
Women’s Freestyle -50kg	Oksana Livach
Women’s Freestyle -68kg	Alla Cherkasova