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 Duet	Marta Fiedina Anastasiya Savchuk

Athletics

Women’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s 400m Hurdles	Anna Ryzhykova
Women’s 20km Walk	Inna Kashina
Women’s Marathon	Viktoriya Khapilina
Women’s High Jump	Yaroslava Mahuchikh

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	Pavlo Korostylov

Swimming

Men’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s 800m Freestyle	Mykhailo Romanchuk
	Sergii Frolov