page_title: Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute
section_title: Sports
hierarchical_section_title: Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute / Sports
caption_attribution_description: Palace Sports Institute. The huge building where classes are held, hundreds of Physical Education. Дворец спорта ХПИ, Харьков. Оф. адрес - улица Артёма. Реальное расположение - Молодёжный парк. Построен на месте Иоанно-Усекновенского кладбища в 1980-х.
context_page_description: The National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute", in the city of Kharkiv, is the largest and oldest technical university in eastern Ukraine. Founded in 1885, it is the second-oldest technical university in the former Russian Empire and in the territory of modern Ukraine.
context_section_description: The institute has a contemporary sports complex, allowing for more than 30 types of sports and activities; this allows for active involvement in sports for students and faculty. Among thousands of active sportsmen in NTU "KhPI" are Olympic and world champions, winners of international and national competitions, including Т. Artemenko, I. Moskaltsov, V. Homutov (mountaineering), Aleksei Barkalov (water polo, two gold Olympic medals in 1972 and 1980), G. Gafanovich (volleyball), Dmitrii Bezkorovaynyi, Ruslan Babaev (arm wrestling), I. Kaydash, L. Tkachenko-Garkavaya (track and field), N. Yesipenko (badminton), I. Kyrychenko (cycling), L. Khazieva (swimming), I. Raevskyy and D. Slatyn (basketball).
  2004 Summer Olympics participants from NTU "KhPI":
  Oleksandr Serdyuk – bronze medal (men's archery team competition)
  Oleksandra Ryzhkova (women's track and field)
  Andriy Tverdostup (men's track and field)
  Iana Dementeva (women's rowing)
  2008 Summer Olympics participants from NTU "KhPI":
  Ihor Bodrov – men's track and field
  Since 1997, Dmitriy Bezkorovaynyi and Ruslan Babaev have won several world arm-wrestling championships. Considerable success on the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens was achieved by Andriy Zhyltsov
  (gold, silver and two bronze medals) in athletics (track-and-field) events.
caption: Sports Building
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