Ukraine at the 2012 Summer Olympics explained

Ukraine competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from July 27 to August 12, 2012. This was the nation's fifth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era. The National Olympic Committee of Ukraine sent a total of 238 athletes, split equally between men and women, to compete in 21 sports.

Ukraine left London with a total of 19 Olympic medals (5 gold, 4 silver, and 10 bronze), their lowest in Summer Olympic history since their debut in 1996. Five of these medals were awarded to the team in boxing; three each in athletics and sprint canoeing, and two each in fencing, shooting, and weightlifting. Two Ukrainian athletes won more than a single Olympic medal, while all of their competitors in sprint canoeing won at least a medal. For the first time in its history, Ukraine did not win an Olympic medal in archery.

Among the nation's medalists were épée fencer Yana Shemyakina and the women's quadruple sculls team, led by Yana Dementyeva, who both won Ukraine's first Olympic gold medals in their respective events. Sprint canoer Inna Osypenko, who won two silver in London, became one of the most successful Ukrainian athletes in history, with a total of four Olympic medals. Meanwhile, Yuriy Cheban won the coveted gold medal in the men's sprint canoe singles, in addition to his bronze from Beijing. Vasyl Lomachenko became the first Ukrainian boxer and twelfth in history to claim two Olympic titles.^[1] Sabre fencer Olha Kharlan defeated the reigning champion Mariel Zagunis from the United States to win the bronze medal. Track runner Yelizaveta Bryzhina followed her parents' footsteps to lead her team and win the nation's first Olympic medal in women's sprint relay. Pistol shooter Olena Kostevych recaptured her sporting success from eight years before by winning two bronze medals, in addition to her Olympic title from Athens.

Medalists

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
	2	1	2	5
	1	2	0	3
	1	0	1	2
	0	0	1	1
	1	0	0	1
	0	0	3	3
	0	1	0	1
	0	0	2	2
	0	0	1	1
Total	5	4	10	19

Delegation

The National Olympic Committee of Ukraine selected a team of 238 athletes, dividing into men and women by half, to compete in 21 sports; it was the nation's third-largest team sent to the Olympics, but the smallest since 2000. For the second consecutive time in its Olympic history, Ukraine did not qualify athletes in any of the team-based sports. Athletics was the largest team by sport, with a total of 78 competitors.

The Ukrainian team featured twelve Olympic medalists from Beijing, five of them defending (rifle hooter Artur Ayvazyan, archer Viktor Ruban, heptathlete Nataliya Dobrynska, sprint kayaker Inna Osypenko, and former featherweight boxer Vasyl Lomachenko, who competed in the men's lightweight division). Eights rower Oleh Lykov and windsurfer Maksym Oberemko became first Ukrainian athletes to compete in five Olympic games. Along with Ayvazyan, four Ukrainian athletes made their fourth Olympic appearance: windsurfer Olha Maslivets, pole vaulter and bronze medalist Denys Yurchenko, freestyle and open water swimmer Ihor Chervynskyy, and mountain biker Serhiy Rysenko. Rower Kostiantyn Zaitsev marked his Olympic return in London after a twelve-year absence, and competed in men's quadruple sculls. Meanwhile, former freestyle swimmer Olga Beresnyeva and long-distance runner Serhiy Lebid were among the nation's athletes who made their comeback at these Olympic games after an eight-year absence. Hammer thrower Oleksandr Dryhol, at age 46, was the oldest athlete of the team, while relay swimmer Iryna Hlavnyk was the youngest at age 16.

Other notable Ukrainian athletes featured platform diver and former Youth Olympic games medalist Oleksandr Bondar, sprint canoer and Olympic bronze medalist Yuriy Cheban, 2011 World Amateur Boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk in the men's heavyweight division, and former Olympic champions Irini Merleni in women's freestyle wrestling, Yuri Nikitin in trampoline gymnastics, and Olena Kostevych in pistol shooting. Judoka and Olympic bronze medalist Roman Gontiuk was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.

| width=78% align=left valign=top |The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games. Note that reserves in fencing, field hockey, football, and handball are not counted as athletes:

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Archery	3	3	6
Athletics	30	48	78
Badminton	1	1	2
Boxing	7	0	7
Canoeing	1	1	2
Cycling	3	7	10
Diving	5	4	9
Equestrian	3	2	5
Fencing	3	5	8
Gymnastics	6	10	16
Judo	7	3	10
Modern pentathlon	2	2	4
Rowing	15	6	21
Sailing	3	1	4
Shooting	5	3	8
Swimming	8	6	14
Synchronized swimming	0	2	2
Table tennis	2	2	4
Taekwondo	1	1	2
Tennis	1	1	2
Triathlon	1	1	2
Weightlifting	6	3	9
Wrestling	9	4	13
Total	119	119	238

Archery

See main article: article and Archery at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukraine has qualified three archers for the men's individual event, three archers for the women's individual event, a team for the men's team event and a team for the women's team event.

Previously, Ukraine has won a total of five Olympic medals in archery, one gold, one silver, and two bronze. Archer Viktor Ruban, the defending champion of the men's individual archery competition from the Beijing Olympics, managed to qualify into three consecutive rounds, until he was lost in the quarterfinal round by Korea's Oh Jin-Hyek, who later won the gold medal and then succeeded Ruban's Olympic title during the final rounds of the competition.

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Dmytro Hrachov	align=left rowspan=3	Individual	665	28	(37) W 7–2	(68) L 4–6	Did not advance
Markiyan Ivashko	667	24	(41) W 6–4	(56) W 7–1	(35) L 0–6	Did not advance
Viktor Ruban	660	43	(22) W 6–0	(54) W 6–0	(6) W 6–4	(8) L 1–7	Did not advance
Dmytro Hrachov Markiyan Ivashko Viktor Ruban	Team	1992	9	(8) W 223–212	(1) L 220–227	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Tetyana Dorokhova	align=left rowspan=3	Individual	599	59	(6) L 1–7	Did not advance
Kateryna Palekha	624	51	(14) L 2–6	Did not advance
Lidiia Sichenikova	645	32	(33) L 5–6	Did not advance
Tetyana Dorokhova Kateryna Palekha Lidiia Sichenikova	Team	1868	12	(5) L 192–207	Did not advance

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukrainian athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard):^[2]

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Serhiy Smelyk	200 m	20.65	4	Did not advance
Vitaliy Butrym	400 m	47.62	5	Did not advance
Serhiy Lebid	5000 m	13:53.15	17	Did not advance
Mykola Labovskyi	10000 m	29.32.12	26
Stanislav Melnykov	400 m hurdles	50.13	3 Q	50.19	6	Did not advance
Vadym Slobodenyuk	3000 m steeplechase	8:23.35	8	Did not advance
Ivan Babaryka	align=left rowspan=3	Marathon	2:21:52	59
Oleksandr Sitkovskyy	2:12:56	12
Vitaliy Shafar	2:16:36	29
Ruslan Dmytrenko	align=left rowspan=3	20 km walk	1:23.21	30
Nazar Kovalenko	1:22.54	27
Ivan Losyev	1:26:50	47
Serhiy Budza	align=left rowspan=3	50 km walk	3:56:35	35
Ihor Hlavan	3:48:07	19
Oleksiy Kazanin

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Viktor Kuznyetsov	Long jump	7.50	31	Did not advance
Sheryf El-Sheryf	Triple jump	16.60	13	Did not advance
Bohdan Bondarenko	align=left rowspan=3	High jump	2.26	=8 q	2.29	7
Dmytro Demyanyuk	2.21	=16	Did not advance
Andriy Protsenko	2.29	5 q	2.25	9
Maksym Mazuryk	align=left rowspan=2	Pole vault	5.35	=18	Did not advance
Denys Yurchenko		—	Did not advance
Andriy Semenov	Shot put		—	Did not advance
Mykyta Nesterenko	Discus throw	59.17	34	Did not advance
Roman Avramenko	align=left rowspan=2	Javelin throw	80.06	14	Did not advance
Oleksandr Pyatnytsya	82.40	4 Q	84.51
Oleksandr Dryhol	align=left rowspan=3	Hammer throw	69.57	34	Did not advance
Artem Rubanko		—	Did not advance
Oleksiy Sokyrskyy	77.65	4 Q	78.25	4

* On 9 August 2016, IOC announced that Oleksandr Pyatnytsya of Ukraine has been disqualified from the 2012 Summer Olympics and ordered to return the silver medal from the men's javelin throw event. Reanalysis of his samples from London 2012 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol).^[3]

Combined events – Decathlon

Athlete	Event	100 m				400 m					1500 m	Final	Rank
Oleksiy Kasyanov	Result	10.56	7.55	14.45	1.99	48.44	14.09	46.72	4.60	54.87	4:33.68	8283	7
Points	961	947	756	794	888	963	802	790	661	721

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Nataliya Pohrebnyak	align=left rowspan=2	100 m	11.46	5	Did not advance
Olesya Povh	11.18	3 Q	11.30	6	Did not advance
Yelizaveta Bryzhina	align=left rowspan=3	200 m	22.82	3 Q	22.64	5	Did not advance
Mariya Ryemyen	22.58	1 Q	22.62	4	Did not advance
Khrystyna Stuy	22.66	3 Q	22.76	4	Did not advance
Alina Lohvynenko	align=left rowspan=2	400 m	52.08	2 Q	51.38	6	Did not advance
Nataliya Pyhyda	51.09	2 Q	51.41	5	Did not advance
Yuliya Krevsun	align=left rowspan=3	800 m			Did not advance
Liliya Lobanova			Did not advance
Nataliya Lupu	2:08.35	1 Q	2:01.63	5	Did not advance
Anna Mishchenko	align=left rowspan=2	1500 m	4:13.63	13	Did not advance
Anzhelika Shevchenko	4:12.97	13	Did not advance
Lyudmyla Kovalenko	5000 m	15:18.60	11	Did not advance
Olha Skrypak	10000 m	32:14.59	20
Hanna Titimets	align=left rowspan=2	400 m hurdles	55.08	2 Q	55.10	4	Did not advance
Hanna Yaroshchuk	54.81	3 Q	55.51	4	Did not advance
Svitlana Shmidt	align=left rowspan=2	3000 m steeplechase	10:01.09	12	Did not advance
Valentyna Zhudina	9:37.90	7	Did not advance
Yelizaveta Bryzhina Nataliya Pohrebnyak Olesya Povh Mariya Ryemyen Khrystyna Stuy	4 × 100 m relay	42.36	1 Q	42.04 NR
Yuliya Baraley Alina Lohvynenko Yuliya Olishevska Darya Prystupa Nataliya Pyhyda Olha Zemlyak Hanna Titimets Hanna Yaroshchuk	4 × 400 m relay	3:25.90	2 Q	3:23.57
Olena Burkovska	align=left rowspan=3	Marathon	2:33:26	48
Tetyana Filonyuk
Tetyana Hamera-Shmyrko	2:24:32	5
Nadiya Borovska	align=left rowspan=3	20 km walk	1:30:03	16
Olena Shumkina	1:36:42	50
Olha Yakovenko	1:32:07	27

* Viktoriya Pyatachenko was selected in the women's 4 × 100 m relay, but did not compete.

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Viktoriya Rybalko	align=left rowspan=2	Long jump	6.29	20	Did not advance
Marharyta Tverdohlib	6.19	26	Did not advance
Hanna Demydova	align=left rowspan=3	Triple jump	13.97	15	Did not advance
Hanna Knyazyeva	14.33	6 Q	14.56	4
Olha Saladuha	14.35	5 Q	14.79
Olena Holosha	align=left rowspan=2	High jump	1.90	=15	Did not advance
Vita Styopina	1.80	34	Did not advance
Nataliya Mazuryk	align=left rowspan=2	Pole vault	4.25	26	Did not advance
Hanna Shelekh	4.10	33	Did not advance
Kateryna Karsak	align=left rowspan=2	Discus throw	58.64	28	Did not advance
Nataliya Semonova	60.61	18	Did not advance
Marharyta Dorozhon	align=left rowspan=3	Javelin throw	56.74	28	Did not advance
Hanna Hatsko	58.37	22	Did not advance
Vira Rebryk	58.97	19	Did not advance
Iryna Novozhylova	align=left rowspan=2	Hammer throw	65.35	33	Did not advance
Hanna Skydan	68.50	19	Did not advance

Combined events – Heptathlon

Athlete	Event				200 m			800 m	Final	Rank
Nataliya Dobrynska	Result	13.57	1.83	15.05	24.69	3.70		—
Points	1040	1016	864	915	242	0	—
Hanna Melnychenko	Result	13.32	1.80	12.96	24.09	6.40	43.86	2:12.90	6392	10
Points	1077	978	725	972	975	742	923
Lyudmyla Yosypenko	Result	13.25	1.83	13.90	23.68	6.31	49.63	2:13.28	6618	4
Points	1087	1016	787	1012	946	853	912

Badminton

See main article: article and Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Group stage			Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Dmytro Zavadsky	Men's singles	L 21–17, 10–21, 16–21	W 21–8, 21–8	2	Did not advance
Larisa Griga	Women's singles	L 13–21, 21–15, 15–21	L 13–21, 21–15, 15–21	3	Did not advance

Boxing

See main article: article and Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukraine has qualified seven boxers at the London games. This was, by far, Ukraine's best performance at the Olympic games, after winning all but two medals in London. Five of them were awarded to the team, including two gold medals won by lightweight boxer Vasyl Lomachenko and heavyweight boxer Oleksandr Usyk. Lomachenko, former Olympic champion in the men's featherweight division at Beijing, was also the first boxer to win more than a single title in its history.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Pavlo Ishchenko	Bantamweight	L 9–19	Did not advance
Vasyl Lomachenko	Lightweight		W 15–3	W 14–9	W 14–11	W 19–9
Denys Berinchyk	Light welterweight		W 24–23	W 21–13	W 29–21	L 15–22
Taras Shelestyuk	Welterweight		W 15–7	W 18+–18	L 10–11	Did not advance
Evhen Khytrov	Middleweight		L 18–18+	Did not advance
Oleksandr Hvozdyk	Light heavyweight	W 18–10	W 18–6	W 19–17	L 13–13+	Did not advance
Oleksandr Usyk	Heavyweight			W 17–13	W 21–5	W 14–11

Canoeing

See main article: article and Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Sprint

Ukraine has qualified boats for the following events

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yuriy Cheban	Men's C-1 200 m	41.036	1 Q	40.647	1 FA	42.291
align=left rowspan=2	Inna Osypenko	Women's K-1 200 m	42.119	1 Q	41.360	3 FA	45.053
Women's K-1 500 m	1:52.268	4 Q	1:51.515	2 FA	1:52.685

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Cycling

See main article: article and Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukraine has qualified in the following events

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Andriy Hrivko	align=left rowspan=2	Men's road race	5:46:05	17
Dmytro Krivtsov	5:46:37	66
Alyona Andruk	Women's road race

Track

Sprint

Team sprint

Pursuit

Keirin

Mountain biking

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Serhiy Rysenko	Men's cross-country	1:37:32	31
Yana Belomoyna	Women's cross-country	1:35:46	13

Diving

See main article: article and Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Illya Kvasha	align=left rowspan=2	3 m springboard	470.25	6 Q	478.60	7 Q	462.25	8
Oleksiy Pryhorov	439.80	17 Q	414.15	16	Did not advance
Oleksandr Bondar	align=left rowspan=2	10 m platform	481.65	7 Q	496.30	11 Q	443.70	12
Anton Zakharov	451.35	12 Q	464.70	15	Did not advance
Illya Kvasha Oleksiy Pryhorov	3 m synchronized springboard	434.22	4
Oleksandr Bondar Oleksandr Gorshkovozov	10 m synchronized platform	433.32	8

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Olena Fedorova	align=left rowspan=2	3 m springboard	308.70	14 Q	314.70	12 Q	317.80	9
Hanna Pysmenska	271.50	21	Did not advance
Iuliia Prokopchuk	10 m platform	324.85	11 Q	315.80	12 Q	344.55	12
Olena Fedorova Hanna Pysmenska	3 m synchronized springboard	302.40	6
Iuliia Prokopchuk Viktoriya Potyekhina	10 m synchronized platform	299.64	8

Equestrian

See main article: article and Equestrian at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukraine has qualified a team (four athletes) for Show jumping and one individual for Dressage for the Games.

Jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification								Final					Total
			Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Round A		Round B
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Björn Nagel	Niack de l'Abbaye	align=left rowspan=4	Individual	4	=42 Q	4	8	=31 Q	13	21	=41	Did not advance					21	=41
Katharina Offel	Vivant	4	=42 Q	12	16	58	Did not advance								16	58
Oleksandr Onyshchenko	Comte d'Arsouilles	18	70	Did not advance											18	70
Cassio Rivetti	Temple Road	0	=1 Q	5	5	=27 Q	12	17	37 Q	5	=20 Q	4	9	=12	9	=12
Björn Nagel Katharina Offel Oleksandr Onyshchenko Cassio Rivetti	See above	Team	21	14	Did not advance			21	14

Fencing

See main article: article and Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukraine has qualified 8 fencers.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Dmytro Karyuchenko	Individual épée		L 10–15	Did not advance
Dmytro Boiko	Individual sabre		L 12–15	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Olena Kryvytska	align=left rowspan=3	Individual épée	W 15–13	L 10–15	Did not advance
Kseniya Pantelyeyeva	W 15–11	L 10–15	Did not advance
Yana Shemyakina		W 15–12	W 14–13	W 15–14	W 14–13	W 9–8
Olena Kryvytska Kseniya Pantelyeyeva Anfisa Pochkalova Yana Shemyakina	Team épée	L 34–45	Classification semi-final L 36–45	7th place final L 40–45	8
Olha Leleyko	Individual foil	W 15–4	L 9–15	Did not advance
Olha Kharlan	Individual sabre		W 15–8	W 15–10	W 15–9	L 12–15	W 15–10

Gymnastics

See main article: article and Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Artistic

Men

Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
Mykola Kuksenkov	align=left rowspan=6	Team	14.533	14.900	15.000	15.766	15.066	14.666	89.931	6 Q		15.100	15.233		15.200	15.266	colspan=2
Vitalii Nakonechnyi	14.066	14.933 Q	14.133	14.800	14.333	14.866	14.266	colspan=2
Ihor Radivilov	15.300	16.266 Q	15.433	16.066	colspan=4
Oleh Stepko	15.033	14.400	14.866	15.916	13.366	13.466	87.047	20	14.866	15.000	15.033	15.733	13.933	colspan=3
Oleg Verniaiev	15.033	14.366	14.600	16.333	14.566	14.066	88.964	13 Q	14.866	16.266	15.600	14.466	colspan=2
Total	44.599	44.233	45.166	48.515	43.765	43.532	269.810	7 Q	44.065	44.966	45.699	48.065	44.733	43.998	271.526	4

Individual finals

Athlete	Event	Apparatus						Total	Rank
Mykola Kuksenkov	All-around	14.633	14.600	15.200	15.533	15.400	15.066	90.432	4
Vitalii Nakonechnyi	Pommel horse		14.766	14.766	6
Ihor Radivilov	Vault	16.316	16.316
Oleg Verniaiev	All-around	14.533	13.966	14.866	16.233	15.033	14.300	88.931	11

Women

Rhythmic

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank	Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank
Alina Maksymenko	align=left rowspan=2	Individual	27.300	28.125	27.800	26.800	110.025	7 Q	27.950	26.675	27.550	27.450	109.625	6
Ganna Rizatdinova	27.350	26.800	27.750	26.950	108.850	10 Q	26.750	27.050	26.975	26.500	107.400	10

Trampoline

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Yuri Nikitin	Men's	79.070	14	Did not advance
Marina Kiyko	Women's	73.460	16	Did not advance

Judo

See main article: article and Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Georgii Zantaraia	−60 kg		L 0000–0001	Did not advance
Sergiy Drebot	−66 kg		L 0002–0011	Did not advance
Volodymyr Soroka	−73 kg		W 0102–0011	L 0002–0011	Did not advance
Artem Vasylenko	−81 kg	L 0001–1000	Did not advance
Roman Hontyuk	−90 kg		L 0001–1001	Did not advance
Artem Bloshenko	−100 kg		W 0010–0000	L 0000–1001	Did not advance
Stanislav Bondarenko	+100 kg		L 0002–0021	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Nataliya Smal	−70 kg	L 0002–0110	Did not advance
Maryna Pryshchepa	−78 kg		L 0000–0100	Did not advance
Iryna Kindzerska	+78 kg		W 0103–0002	L 0000–0100	Did not advance	W 0010–0002	L 0011–0020	5

Modern pentathlon

See main article: article and Modern pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukraine has qualified two men and two women

Athlete	Event	Fencing (épée one touch)			Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Riding (show jumping)			Combined: shooting/running (10 m air pistol)/(3000 m)			Total points	Final rank
		Results	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP points	Penalties	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP points
Dmytro Kirpulyanskyy	align=left rowspan=2	Men's	17–18	=13	808	2:04.83	16	1304	860*	35	340	11:18.80	28	2288	4740	35
Pavlo Tymoshchenko	13–22	33	712	2:08.15	23	1264	60	14	1140	10:48.37	15	2408	5524	23
Iryna Khokhlova	align=left rowspan=2	Women's	18–17	=16	832	2:16.22	9	1168	0	1	1200	12:32.44	22	1992	5192	10
Victoria Tereshchuk	14–21	=28	736	2:16.07	8	1168	132	26	1068	12:24.64	18	2024	4996	23

* Did not finish

Rowing

See main article: article and Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukraine has qualified the following boats

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Dmytro Mikhay Artem Morozov	Double sculls	6:49.70	4 R	6:30.19	2 SA/B	6:36.52	6 FB	6:31.51	11
Sergiy Gryn Ivan Dovgodko Volodymyr Pavlovskiy Kostiantyn Zaitsev	Quadruple sculls	5:43.46	3 SA/B	6:16.23	5 FB	6:01.23	9
Sergii Chykanov Viktor Grebennykov Anton Kholyaznykov Valentyn Kletskoy Oleksandr Konovaliuk (cox) Oleh Lykov Artem Moroz Andriy Pryveda Ivan Tymko	Eight	5:38.02	4 R	5:42.19	6 FB	6:07.33	8

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Olena Buryak Anna Kravchenko	Double sculls	7:09.40	5 R	7:23.02	6 FB	7:36.65	10
Yana Dementyeva Nataliya Dovgodko Anastasiya Kozhenkova Kateryna Tarasenko	Quadruple sculls	6:14.82	2 FA	6:35.93

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

See main article: article and Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukraine has qualified 1 boat for each of the following events

Men

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Maksym Oberemko	RS:X	36	35	16	28	17	31	23	14	6	11	EL	181	23
Valeriy Kudryashov	Laser	48	38	42	31	38	40	35	36	38	43	EL	341	44
Oleksiy Boryzov	Finn	21 RDG	18.6 RDG	19	19	15	19	23	14	17	18	EL	160.6	19

Women

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race;
Scoring abbreviations are defined as follows:OCS – On course side of the starting line; DSQ – Disqualified; DNF – Did not finish; DNS – Did not start. RDG – Redress given.

Shooting

See main article: article and Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukraine has ensured berths in the following events of shooting:^[4]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Artur Ayvazyan	50 m rifle 3 positions	1168	10	Did not advance
50 m rifle prone	593	21	Did not advance
10 m air rifle	593	19	Did not advance
Roman Bondaruk	25 m rapid fire pistol	579	12	Did not advance
Denys Kushnirov	10 m air pistol	577	19	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Serhiy Kulish	50 m rifle 3 positions	1166	14	Did not advance
50 m rifle prone	583	49	Did not advance
10 m air rifle	593	18	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Oleh Omelchuk	50 m pistol	548	29	Did not advance
10 m air pistol	583	6 Q	683.6	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Olena Kostevych	25 m pistol	585	5 Q	788.6
10 m air pistol	387	2 Q	486.6
align=left rowspan=2	Dariya Sharipova	50 m rifle 3 positions	573	38	Did not advance
10 m air rifle	395	13	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Daria Tykhova	50 m rifle 3 positions	577	26	Did not advance
10 m air rifle	394	23	Did not advance

Swimming

See main article: article and Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukrainian swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^[5]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ihor Borysyk	200 m breaststroke	2:12.61	22	Did not advance
Ihor Chervynskyy	10 km open water	1:50:56.9	14
Illya Chuyev	200 m butterfly	1:59.65	28	Did not advance
Valeriy Dymo	100 m breaststroke	1:01.27	23	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Serhiy Frolov	400 m freestyle	3:50.63	17	Did not advance
1500 m freestyle	14:59.19	10	Did not advance
Andriy Hovorov	50 m freestyle	22.09	7 Q	22.12	14	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Oleksandr Isakov	100 m backstroke	55.43	35	Did not advance
200 m backstroke	2:00.78	30	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Maksym Shemberev	200 m individual medley	2:03.40	33	Did not advance
400 m individual medley	4:16.63	15	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Olha Beresnyeva	10 km open water	1:58:44.4	7
align=left rowspan=3	Hanna Dzerkal	200 m breaststroke	2:27.09	17	Did not advance
200 m individual medley	2:14.55	18	Did not advance
400 m individual medley	4:48.19	26	Did not advance
Mariya Liver	100 m breaststroke	1:11.23	37	Did not advance
Darya Stepanyuk	50 m freestyle	25.70	33	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Daryna Zevina	100 m backstroke	1:00.57	18	Did not advance
200 m backstroke	2:09.40	9 Q	2:09.70	12	Did not advance
Hanna Dzerkal Iryna Hlavnyk Darya Stepanyuk Daryna Zevina	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	8:12.67	15	Did not advance

Synchronized swimming

See main article: article and Synchronized swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukraine has qualified 2 quota places in Synchronized swimming.

Table tennis

See main article: article and Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukraine has qualified the following athletes

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Oleksandr Didukh	align=left rowspan=2	Men's singles		W 4–3	L 0–4	Did not advance
Yaroslav Zhmudenko		L 1–4	Did not advance
Tetyana Bilenko	align=left rowspan=2	Women's singles		W 4–1	L 3–4	Did not advance
Margaryta Pesotska	W 4–1	L 0–4	Did not advance

Taekwondo

See main article: article and Taekwondo at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukraine has qualified 2 athletes.

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Bronze medal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Hryhorii Husarov	Men's −68 kg	W 10–6	L 2–9	Did not advance	L 2–3	Did not advance
Maryna Konieva	Women's +67 kg	W 18–13	L 2–16	Did not advance

Tennis

See main article: article and Tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sergiy Stakhovsky	Men's singles	L 3–6, 6–4, 3–6	Did not advance
Kateryna Bondarenko	Women's singles	L 4–6, 7–5, 4–6	Did not advance

Triathlon

See main article: article and Triathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukraine has qualified the following athletes.

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total Time	Rank
Danylo Sapunov	Men's	18:08	0:42	59:35	0:29	32:38	1:51:32	42
Yuliya Yelistratova	Women's	20:50	0:46	Lapped

Weightlifting

See main article: article and Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukraine has qualified 6 men and 3 women.

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Artem Ivanov	align=left rowspan=2	−94 kg	Withdrew
Kostyantyn Piliyev	166	13	206	12	372	12
Serhiy Tahirov	align=left rowspan=2	−105 kg	174	10	200	11	374	10
Oleksiy Torokhtiy	185	4	227	1	412
Ihor Shymechko	align=left rowspan=2	+105 kg	197	5	232	6	429	6
Artem Udachyn	Did not compete

Women

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Yuliya Paratova	−53 kg	91	4	108	10	199
Yuliya Kalina	−58 kg	106	2	129	5	235
Svitlana Cherniavska	+75 kg	Withdrew

* On 13 July 2016, IOC announced that Yuliya Kalina has been disqualified and ordered to return the bronze medal from the 58 kg weightlifting event.^[6]
* On 19 December 2019, IOC announced that Oleksiy Torokhtiy has been disqualified and ordered to return the gold medal from the 105 kg weightlifting event.^[7]

Wrestling

See main article: article and Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ukraine has qualified in the following events

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Vasyl Fedoryshyn	−60 kg		L 0–3	Did not advance					17
Andriy Kvyatkovskyy	−66 kg		L 1–3	Did not advance					13
Ibragim Aldatov	−84 kg	W 3–1	L 1–3	Did not advance					9
Valerii Andriitsev	−96 kg		W 3–1	W 3–1	W 5–0	L 0–3
Oleksandr Khotsianivskyi	−120 kg	L 0–3	Did not advance						14

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Vyugar Ragymov	−55 kg	L 1–3	Did not advance						13
Lenur Temirov	−60 kg	L 0–3	Did not advance						18
Vasyl Rachyba	−84 kg		W 3–0	L 1–3	Did not advance				8
Yevhen Orlov	−120 kg		L 0–3	Did not advance					18

Women's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Irini Merleni	−48 kg		W 3–0	W 5–0	L 0–3	L 0–3	5
Tetyana Lazareva	−55 kg		W 5–0	L 0–3	Did not advance		W 3–0	L 1–3	5
Yuliya Ostapchuk	−63 kg	W 3–0	W 3–0	L 0–3	Did not advance				7
Kateryna Burmistrova	−72 kg		L 0–3	Did not advance		L 0–3	Did not advance		13

Uniforms

The uniforms worn at the opening and closing ceremonies by Ukraine's Olympic athletes were designed by a Russian firm Bosco, the same firm that designed the uniforms for the athletes of the Russian Federation and Spain.^[8]

Ukrainian athletes wore Bosco uniforms for the first time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The same firm is expected to design the uniforms for Ukraine's Olympic team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The uniforms are provided free of charge to the team members.^[9]

The style is of the early 1970s in patterns and colors that reflect the culture of freedom-loving Ukraine. For men, bell-bottoms, colorful shirts with pointed collars single-breasted jackets with wide lapels, and traditional hats. For women capri pants, tunics and short vests, colorful scarves and fringed bags. The design incorporates the blue and yellow colors of the Ukrainian flag and a stylized shaft of wheat, the traditional national symbol of Ukraine.^[10]

Notes and References

1. News: Olympics boxing: Vasyl Lomachenko wins second gold medal. BBC. 12 August 2012. 16 September 2012.
2. Web site: iaaf.org – Top Lists. IAAF. 4 June 2011.
3. https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-four-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-tests-at-beijing-2008-and-london-2012 IOC sanctions four athletes for failing anti-doping tests
4. Web site: Quota places by nation and name. . 28 May 2011 . . 5 April 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140405211236/http://www.issf-sports.org/results/og_qualification/quota_places/quota_places_by_nation_and_name.ashx . dead .
5. Web site: Swimming World Rankings. FINA. 8 June 2011.
6. Web site: IOC sanctions Ukrainian weightlifter Yulia Kalina for failing anti-doping test at London 2012 . International Olympic Committee . 19 December 2019 . en . 13 July 2016.
7. Web site: IOC sanctions one athlete for failing anti-doping tests at London 2012 . International Olympic Committee . 19 December 2019 . en . 19 December 2019.
8. Web site: London 2012 Olympics: Spanish Games team laughing stock after Bosco provide garish uniforms . . https://web.archive.org/web/20220616231033/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9422401/London-2012-Olympics-Spanish-Games-team-laughing-stock-after-Bosco-provide-garish-uniforms.html . 2022-06-16 . live .
9. http://www.kyivpost.com/content/sport/ukraines-olympic-team-uniforms-designed-by-russian.html Kyiv Post
10. http://www.noc-ukr.org/en/news/6067/ Ukraine’s new look for London 2012 is unveiled