# List of Ukrainian sportspeople

This is a list of notable Ukrainian sportspeople.

## American football

* Igor Olshansky – American football

## Archery

* Nataliya Burdeyna – Olympic silver medalist
* Dmytro Hrachov – Olympic bronze medalist
* Viktor Ruban – Olympic champion
* Olena Sadovnycha – Olympic silver medalist
* Kateryna Serdyuk – Olympic silver medalist
* Oleksandr Serdyuk – Olympic bronze medalist
* Victor Sidoruk
* Stanislav Zabrodsky

## Athletics

* Olena Antonova
* Inha Babakova
* Oleksandr Bagach
* Bohdan Bondarenko
* Yelyzaveta Bryzhina
* Sergey Bubka – Olympic champion
* Nataliya Dobrynska – Olympic champion
* Olena Hovorova
* Olena Krasovska – Olympic silver medalist
* Inessa Kravets – Olympic champion
* Oleksandr Krykun
* Iryna Lishchynska
* Faina Melnik – 11 world records; Olympic discus throw champion
* Nadiya Olizarenko
* Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, sprinter, world 100-m & 200-m champion
* Olesya Povh
* Oleksandr Pyatnytsya
* Mariya Ryemyen
* Olha Saladuha
* Roman Shchurenko
* Hrystyna Stuy
* Vita Styopina
* Kateryna Tabashnyk (born 1994), high jumper
* Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova
* Nataliya Tobias
* Denys Yurchenko

## Baseball

* Bill Cristall
* Reuben Ewing
* Izzy Goldstein

## Basketball

* Alexander Belostenny
* Sergiy Gladyr
* Natalya Klimova
* Viacheslav Kravtsov
* Raisa Kurvyakova
* Alex Len
* Slava Medvedenko
* Oleksiy Pecherov
* Anatoli Polivoda
* Vitaly Potapenko
* Lyudmila Rogozhina
* Anton Shoutvin
* Marina Tkachenko
* Vladimir Tkachenko
* Alexander Volkov
* Tetiana Zakharova-Nadyrova

## Biathlon

* Olexander Bilanenko
* Andriy Deryzemlya
* Juliya Dzhyma – Olympic champion
* Lilia Efremova – Olympic bronze medalist
* Pavlo Ishchenko – 2x European Amateur Boxing Championships medalist, and European Games medalist
* Oksana Khvostenko
* Nina Lemesh
* Olena Petrova – Olympic silver medalist
* Olena Pidhrushna – Olympic champion
* Serhiy Sednev
* Serhiy Semenov
* Valj Semerenko – Olympic champion
* Vita Semerenko – Olympic champion
* Valentina Tserbe-Nessina – Olympic bronze medalist
* Tetyana Vodopyanova
* Olena Zubrilova

## Boxing

* Denys Berinchyk
* Serhiy Danylchenko
* Serhiy Dotsenko – Olympic silver medalist
* Andriy Fedchuk
* Vyacheslav Glazkov
* Oleksandr Hvozdyk
* Oleg Kiryukhin
* Vitali Klitschko – Professional boxer
* Wladimir Klitschko – Olympic champion, professional boxer
* Andreas Kotelnik – Olympic silver medalist
* Ihor Korobchynskyi
* Vasyl Lomachenko – Olympic champion
* Grigory Misutin
* Taras Shelestyuk
* Volodymyr Sydorenko
* Oleksandr Usyk – Olympic champion

## Canoeing

* Hanna Balabanova
* Yuriy Cheban – Olympic champion
* Olena Cherevatova
* Inna Osypenko-Radomska – Olympic champion
* Tetyana Semykina

## Cycling

* Yana Belomoyna
* Serhiy Cherniavskiy
* Oleksandr Fedenko
* Lesya Kalytovska
* Sergiy Matveyev
* Hanna Solovey
* Alexander Symonenko
* Iryna Yanovych

## Cross-country skiing

* Alexander Batyuk
* Valentina Shevchenko
* Iryna Taranenko-Terelia

## Diving

* Illya Kvasha
* Oleksiy Pryhorov
* Ganna Sorokina
* Olena Zhupina

## Equestrian

* Vera Misevich

## Fencing

* Vadim Gutzeit – Olympic champion
* Olha Kharlan – Olympic champion
* Olena Khomrova – Olympic champion
* Halyna Pundyk – Olympic champion
* Yana Shemyakina – Olympic champion
* Vladyslav Tretiak
* Olha Zhovnir – Olympic champion

## Figure skating

* Oksana Baiul – Olympic champion
* Alexei Beletski – Olympican
* Oleksii Bychenko – 2016 European silver medallist, Olympian
* Elena Grushina – Olympic bronze medalist
* Ruslan Goncharov – Olympic bronze medalist
* Natalia Gudina – Olympian
* Viktor Petrenko – Olympic champion

## Football

* Yevhen Konoplyanka
* Andriy Oberemko
* Serhii Rebrov
* Andriy Shevchenko
* Anatoliy Tymoshchuk
* Andriy Voronin

## Freestyle skiing

* Olha Volkova

## Gymnastics

* Alexander Beresch
* Anna Bessonova
* Nina Bocharova
* Viktor Chukarin
* Olena Dvornichenko
* Valeri Goncharov
* Dmytro Leonkin
* Tatiana Lysenko – 2x Olympic champion
* Valeria Maksyuta
* Yuri Nikitin
* Katerina Pisetsky
* Lilia Podkopayeva
* Ihor Radivilov
* Kateryna Serebrianska
* Rustam Sharipov
* Olena Vitrychenko
* Oleksandr Vorobiov
* Roman Zozulya

## Handball

* Anastasiia Pidpalova
* Nataliya Borysenko
* Ganna Burmystrova
* Iryna Honcharova
* Nataliya Lyapina
* Galyna Markushevska
* Olena Radchenko
* Oxana Rayhel
* Lyudmyla Shevchenko
* Tetyana Shynkarenko
* Ganna Siukalo
* Olena Tsyhytsia
* Maryna Vergelyuk
* Olena Yatsenko
* Larysa Zaspa

## Ice hockey

* Anatolii Brezvin (born 1956), president of the Ice Hockey Federation of Ukraine from 2006 to 2020
* Ivan Pravilov (1963–2012), ice hockey coach, arrested for sexual abuse of teenage student, committed suicide by hanging in prison

## Judo

* Roman Hontyuk
* Ruslan Mashurenko

## Luge

* Natalia Yakushenko

## Modern pentathlon

* Victoria Tereshchuk

## Rowing

* Serhiy Biloushchenko
* Yana Dementyeva – Olympic champion
* Nataliya Dovhodko – Olympic champion
* Inna Frolova – Olympic silver medalist
* Serhiy Hryn
* Anastasiya Kozhenkova – Olympic champion
* Oleh Lykov
* Svitlana Maziy – Olympic silver medalist
* Dina Miftakhutdynova – Olympic silver medalist
* Olena Ronzhyna – Olympic silver medalist
* Leonid Shaposhnykov
* Kateryna Tarasenko – Olympic champion

## Rugby league

* Ian Rubin

## Sailing

* Yevhen Braslavets – Olympic champion
* Ganna Kalinina
* George Leonchuk
* Rodion Luka
* Valentin Mankin – Olympic champion, only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes
* Svitlana Matevusheva
* Ihor Matviyenko – Olympic champion
* Olena Pakholchyk
* Ruslana Taran

## Shooting

* Artur Ayvazyan – Olympic champion
* Mykola Milchev – Olympic champion
* Olena Kostevych – Olympic champion
* Oleksandr Petriv – Olympic champion
* Jury Sukhorukov

## Short track speed skating

* Vladimir Grigorev

## Speed skating

* Oleg Goncharenko

## Swimming

* Olga Beresnyeva
* Tatyana Devyatova
* Sergey Fesenko, Sr. – Olympic champion
* Yuriy Hromak
* Pavlo Khnykin
* Olga Kirichenko
* Yana Klochkova – Olympic champion
* Serhiy Krasyuk
* Lenny Krayzelburg – 4x Olympic champion
* Yelena Kruglova
* Oleg Lisogor
* Maxim Podoprigora
* Georgy Prokopenko – Olympic champion
* Galina Prozumenshchikova – Olympic champion
* Volodymyr Raskatov
* Andriy Serdinov
* Oleksandr Sydorenko – Olympic champion
* Denys Sylantyev
* Volodymyr Tkachenko
* Marina Yurchenya

## Table tennis

* Marina Kravchenko

## Tennis

* Alona Bondarenko
* Kateryna Bondarenko
* Alexandr Dolgopolov
* Olga Fridman
* Julia Glushko
* Andriy Medvedev
* Sergiy Stakhovsky
* Elina Svitolina

## Volleyball

* Volodymyr Byelyayev
* Volodymyr Ivanov
* Valeriy Kryvov
* Yevhen Lapinsky
* Fedir Lashchonov
* Viktor Mikhalchuk
* Oleg Moliboga
* Yury Panchenko
* Anatoliy Polishchuk
* Yuriy Poyarkov
* Eduard Sibiryakov
* Oleksandr Sorokalet
* Borys Tereshchuk
* Yury Vengerovsky

## Water polo

* Aleksei Barkalov
* Viktor Berendyuga
* Boris Goykhman
* Andriy Kovalenko
* Mikhail Ryzhak
* Nikolai Smirnov
* Dmitri Stratan
* Vladimir Zhmudsky

## Weightlifting

* Nataliya Davydova
* Denys Hotfrid
* Yuliya Kalina
* Moisei Kas’ianik – world champion
* Olha Korobka
* Igor Olshanetskyi – Ukrainian-born Israeli Olympic weightlifter
* Ihor Razoronov
* Igor Rybak – Olympic champion
* Nataliya Skakun – Olympic champion
* Timur Taymazov – Olympic champion
* Oleksiy Torokhtiy – Olympic champion
* Eduard Weitz – Ukrainian-born Israeli Olympic weightlifter

## Wrestling

* Valeriy Andriytsev
* Yevhen Buslovych
* Taras Danko
* Vasyl Fedoryshyn
* Grigoriy Gamarnik – world champion
* Samuel Gerson – Olympic silver
* Andriy Kalashnykov
* Iryna Merleni – Olympic champion
* Vyacheslav Oliynyk – Olympic champion
* Yakiv Punkin
* Davyd Saldadze
* Andriy Stadnik
* Elbrus Tedeyev – Olympic champion
* Armen Vardanyan
* Nik Zagranitchni – Israeli Olympic wrestler
* Zaza Zazirov