page_title: List of people from Ukraine
section_title: Track & field
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Ukraine / Sport / Track & field
caption_attribution_description: English: Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko at 2013 World Championships in Athletics
context_page_description: This is a list of individuals who were born and lived in territories currently in Ukraine, both ethnic Ukrainians and those of other ethnicities. Throughout Eastern European history, Ukrainian lands were ethnically and culturally diverse, with a number of other ethnic groups living among the Ukrainians. Originally united with Belarus and Muscovy under the state of Kievan Rus', a schism took place after the Mongol invasion, as the Muscovite lands stayed under Mongol/Tatar rule for another century and Ruthenian lands were taken over by the ascendant Duchy of Lithuania, as it helped Ruthenians drive out the Mongol invaders. During this time a language separate from Old East Slavic evolved on the territory of the progenitor Russian principality Muscovy, while a Ruthenian language continued evolving on the territory of central Kievan Rus', whose people were known as the Ruthenians. While Muscovy stayed under Mongol control for over a hundred years, it absorbed much Mongol vocabulary, thus separating modern Russian from modern Belarusian and Ukrainian.
context_section_description: Aleksandr Bagach, shot putter
  Valeriy Borzov, sprinter (2 Olympic golds)
  Serhiy Bubka, pole vault legend (Olympic gold), numerous world records
  Vasiliy Bubka, also a pole vaulter, older brother of Sergey/Serhiy
  Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko (born 1989), Israeli triple jumper and long jumper
  Inessa Kravets, jumper (world record in triple jump)
  Volodymyr Kuts, long distance runner (2 Olympic golds)
  Serhiy Lebid, long distance runner (8-time winner of European Cross Country championships)
  Faina Melnik, discus thrower (Olympic gold)
  Zhanna Pintusevych-Blok, sprinter (World Championship gold); world 100-m & 200-m champion
  Olesya Povh, sprinter (Olympic bronze, world bronze)
  Tamara & Irina Press, sister athletes (5 Olympic golds in total)
  Viktoriya Styopina, high jumper
  Viktor Tsybulenko, javelin (Olympic gold, Olympic bronze)
caption: Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko
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