PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Ukraine finished in eighth place in the medal standings with 31 medals – eight gold, 17 silver and six bronze – at the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade (student youth games) on July 3-14 in Gwangju, South Korea.
Artistic gymnast Oleg Verniaiev won six medals – gold medals in the individual all-around, men’s rings and parallel bars; silver in the men’s floor exercise; and bronze medals in the men’s vault plus the men’s team event (with Igor Radivilov, Mykyta Yermak, Arseniev and Volodymyr Okachev). Gymnast Igor Radivilov won silver medals in men’s rings and men’s vault.
Verniaiev’s six-medal tally was the highest for any individual competitor
In judo, Dmytro Kanivets (73 kg) won silver and Tetiana Lvytska (52 kg) won bronze; the men’s judo team (Bogdan Iadov, Mykhailo Iltchuk, Dmytro Kanivets, Denys Tolkach, Artem Gulyayev, Dmytro Luchyn, Fedir Panko and Anton Rudnyk) won bronze.
Ukraine’s women’s coxless four-man rowing team (Daryna Verkhogliad, Ievgennia Nimchenko, Nataliia Kovalova and Nataliia Dovgodko) won gold. Ukraine also won silver in women’s double sculls (Verkhogliad and Nimchenko) and women’s singles sculls (Dovgodko). Ukraine’s men’s team (Andrii Mykhailov, Yurii Ivanov, Anton Bondarenko, Vladyslav Nikulin, Oleksandr Nadtoka, Artem Verestiuk, Ivan Dovhodko, Igor Khmara and Dmytro Mikhai) won silver in the eight-man race and men’s lightweight double sculls (Igor Khmara and Stanislav Kovalov).
Swimmer Sergei Frolov won gold in the men’s 800-meter freestyle and silver in the men’s 1,500-meter freestyle, while Mariia Liver won gold in women’s 50-meter breaststroke.
Ukraine’s men’s saber team (Bogdan Platonov, Dmytro Raskosov, Ievgenii Staasenko and Yuriy Tsap) won silver and Ukraine’s epee team (Valeriy Zharskyy, Volodymyr Stanke, Yan Sych and Yurii Taranenko) also won silver.
The men’s athletics team (Igor Glavan, Nazar Kovalenko, Ivan Banzeruk) won gold for Ukraine in the men’s team 20-kilometer walk.
In rhythmic gymnastics, Ganna Rizatdinova won gold in the clubs event, silver in ball, bronze in ribbon and silver in the individual all-around. Ukraine’s rhythmic gymnastics team (Olena Dmytrash, Yevgenia Gomon, Oleksandra Gridasova, Valeriia Gudym and Anastasiia Mulmina) won gold in the group event for six clubs and two hoops, silver in the five ribbons group event and silver in the group all-around.
In volleyball, Ukraine’s men (Pylyp Harmash, Yurii Synytsia, Dmytro Bogdan, Oleksiy Klyamar, Mykola Moroz, Maksym Drozd, Dmytro Shorkin, Yuriy Tomyn, Sergiy Tyutlin, Dmytro Teryomenko, Oleg Shevchenko and Olekhsandr Dmytriiev) and women (Ganna Lisieienkova, Anna Stepaniuk, Diana Karpets, Kateryna Kalchenko, Anastasiia Chernukha, Viktoriya Delros, Maryna Degtiarova, Svitlana Dorsman, Angelina Dubianska, Kateryna Dudnyk, Oksana Madzar and Nadiia Kodola) won silver medals in their respective divisions.