The composition of the Ukrainian national team, which will represent our country at the Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo from February 6 to 22, has been announced. 46 athletes will compete under the yellow-blue flag in 11 sports, and the delegation will total 103 people, reports the official website of the NOC of Ukraine.
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The leaders in terms of the number of representatives are biathletes and luge masters (10 athletes each), followed closely by freestylers (9).
In general, the composition of the Ukrainian national team for the 2026 Olympic Games is as follows:
biathlon — Bohdan Borkovsky, Anton Dudchenko, Taras Lesiuk, Vitaliy Mandzin, Dmytro Pidruchny, Olena Gorodnia, Yulia Dzyma, Khrystyna Dmytrenko, Oleksandra Merkushyna, Daria Chalyk;
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Alpine skiing — Dmytro Shepyuk, Anastasia Shepilenko;
biathlon — Dmytro Mazurchuk, Oleksandr Shumbarets;
cross-country skiing — Dmytro Dragun, Oleksandr Lisohor, Daria Mihal, Anastasia Nikon, Elizaveta Noprienko, Sofia Shkatula;
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luge sport — Bohdan Babura, Ihor Hoy, Anton Dukach, Nazariy Kachmar, Andriy Mandziy, Danylo Marcynovsky, Oleksandra Mokh, Olena Smaga, Olena Stetskiv, Yulianna Tunytska;
skeleton — Vladyslav Geraskevych;
snowboarding — Annamarie Dancha;
ski jumping — Vitaliy Kalinichenko, Yevhen Marusiak;
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freestyle — Yan Havryuk, Dmytro Kotovsky, Maksym Kuznetsov, Oleksandr Okipnyuk, Angelina Brykyna, Nelly Popovych, Diana Yablonska, Oksana Yatsyuk, Kateryna Kotsar;
figure skating — Kyrylo Marsak;
short track — Oleg Gandey, Elizaveta Sidorko.
Previously, Ukraine had the smallest representation at the Games in Lillehammer 1994 (37 athletes), and the largest in Salt Lake City 2002 (68, largely thanks to the hockey team).
At the eight previous Olympics, Ukrainian athletes won 9 medals. In 1994, in Lillehammer, Oksana Baiul won a historic “gold” in figure skating, and biathlete Valentina Tserbe-Nesina won “bronze”. At the Nagano-1998 arenas, our team limited itself to “silver” for biathlete Elena Petrova. In 2006, in Turin, biathlete Liliya Efremova won “bronze”, as well as the dance pair of figure skaters Elena Grushyna and Ruslan Goncharov. In Sochi-2014, there was “gold” in the women's biathlon relay (Elena Pidgrushna, Valya Semerenko, Vita Semerenko, Yulia Dzhima). In Pyeongchang-2018, the only award — gold — was brought to Ukraine by freestyler Oleksandr Abramenko, who won the only “silver” in Beijing-2022. Unfortunately, at the Olympic Games of 2002 (in Salt Lake City) and 2010 (in Vancouver), Ukrainian athletes were left without medals.
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