Birth Date: | 19 August 1994 |
Birth Place: | Verkhnia, Kalush Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | 50 km Race Walk |
Maryan Ihorovych Zakalnytskyy (uk|Мар'ян Ігорович Закальницький; born 19 August 1994 in Verkhnia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian race walker. He is the current European champion in the 50 km walk.
He started his sporting career in Kalush. In 2013 he moved to Kyiv.
In 2018, he won gold medal in the men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2018 European Athletics Championships held in Berlin, Germany.[1] [2]
He studied at the State Pedagogical University in Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi.