List of Ukrainian sportspeople
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This is a list of notable Ukrainian sportspeople.
- Igor Olshansky – American football
Archery
- Nataliya Burdeyna – Olympic silver medalist
- Dmytro Hrachov – Olympic bronze medalist
- Viktor Ruban – Olympic champion
- Olena Sadovnycha – Olympic silver medalist
- Kateryna Serdyuk – Olympic silver medalist
- Oleksandr Serdyuk – Olympic bronze medalist
- Victor Sidoruk
- Stanislav Zabrodsky
Athletics
- Olena Antonova
- Inha Babakova
- Oleksandr Bagach
- Bohdan Bondarenko
- Yelyzaveta Bryzhina
- Sergey Bubka – Olympic champion
- Nataliya Dobrynska – Olympic champion
- Olena Hovorova
- Olena Krasovska – Olympic silver medalist
- Inessa Kravets – Olympic champion
- Oleksandr Krykun
- Iryna Lishchynska
- Faina Melnik – 11 world records; Olympic discus throw champion
- Nadiya Olizarenko
- Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, sprinter, world 100-m & 200-m champion
- Olesya Povh
- Oleksandr Pyatnytsya
- Mariya Ryemyen
- Olha Saladuha
- Roman Shchurenko
- Hrystyna Stuy
- Vita Styopina
- Kateryna Tabashnyk (born 1994), high jumper
- Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova
- Nataliya Tobias
- Denys Yurchenko
Baseball
Basketball
Biathlon
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- Olexander Bilanenko
- Andriy Deryzemlya
- Juliya Dzhyma – Olympic champion
- Lilia Efremova – Olympic bronze medalist
- Pavlo Ishchenko – 2x European Amateur Boxing Championships medalist, and European Games medalist
- Oksana Khvostenko
- Nina Lemesh
- Olena Petrova – Olympic silver medalist
- Olena Pidhrushna – Olympic champion
- Serhiy Sednev
- Serhiy Semenov
- Valj Semerenko – Olympic champion
- Vita Semerenko – Olympic champion
- Valentina Tserbe-Nessina – Olympic bronze medalist
- Tetyana Vodopyanova
- Olena Zubrilova
Boxing
- Denys Berinchyk
- Serhiy Danylchenko
- Serhiy Dotsenko – Olympic silver medalist
- Andriy Fedchuk
- Vyacheslav Glazkov
- Oleksandr Hvozdyk
- Oleg Kiryukhin
- Vitali Klitschko – Professional boxer
- Wladimir Klitschko – Olympic champion, professional boxer
- Andreas Kotelnik – Olympic silver medalist
- Ihor Korobchynskyi
- Vasyl Lomachenko – Olympic champion
- Grigory Misutin
- Taras Shelestyuk
- Volodymyr Sydorenko
- Oleksandr Usyk – Olympic champion
Canoeing
- Hanna Balabanova
- Yuriy Cheban – Olympic champion
- Olena Cherevatova
- Inna Osypenko-Radomska – Olympic champion
- Tetyana Semykina
Cycling
Cross-country skiing
Diving
Equestrian
Fencing
- Vadim Gutzeit – Olympic champion
- Olha Kharlan – Olympic champion
- Olena Khomrova – Olympic champion
- Halyna Pundyk – Olympic champion
- Yana Shemyakina – Olympic champion
- Vladyslav Tretiak
- Olha Zhovnir – Olympic champion
Figure skating
- Oksana Baiul – Olympic champion
- Alexei Beletski – Olympican
- Oleksii Bychenko – 2016 European silver medallist, Olympian
- Elena Grushina – Olympic bronze medalist
- Ruslan Goncharov – Olympic bronze medalist
- Natalia Gudina – Olympian
- Kyrylo Marsak — Olympian
- Viktor Petrenko – Olympic champion
Football
Freestyle skiing
Gymnastics
- Alexander Beresch
- Anna Bessonova
- Nina Bocharova
- Viktor Chukarin
- Olena Dvornichenko
- Valeri Goncharov
- Dmytro Leonkin
- Tatiana Lysenko – 2x Olympic champion
- Valeria Maksyuta
- Yuri Nikitin
- Katerina Pisetsky
- Lilia Podkopayeva
- Ihor Radivilov
- Kateryna Serebrianska
- Rustam Sharipov
- Olena Vitrychenko
- Oleksandr Vorobiov
- Roman Zozulya
Handball
Ice hockey
- Anatolii Brezvin (born 1956), president of the Ice Hockey Federation of Ukraine from 2006 to 2020
- Ivan Pravilov (1963–2012), ice hockey coach, arrested for sexual abuse of teenage student, committed suicide by hanging in prison
Judo
Luge
Modern pentathlon
Rowing
- Serhiy Biloushchenko
- Yana Dementyeva – Olympic champion
- Nataliya Dovhodko – Olympic champion
- Inna Frolova – Olympic silver medalist
- Serhiy Hryn
- Anastasiya Kozhenkova – Olympic champion
- Oleh Lykov
- Svitlana Maziy – Olympic silver medalist
- Dina Miftakhutdynova – Olympic silver medalist
- Olena Ronzhyna – Olympic silver medalist
- Leonid Shaposhnykov
- Kateryna Tarasenko – Olympic champion
Rugby league
Sailing
- Yevhen Braslavets – Olympic champion
- Ganna Kalinina
- George Leonchuk
- Rodion Luka
- Valentin Mankin – Olympic champion, only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes
- Svitlana Matevusheva
- Ihor Matviyenko – Olympic champion
- Olena Pakholchyk
- Ruslana Taran
Shooting
- Artur Ayvazyan – Olympic champion
- Mykola Milchev – Olympic champion
- Olena Kostevych – Olympic champion
- Oleksandr Petriv – Olympic champion
- Jury Sukhorukov
Short track speed skating
Speed skating
Swimming
- Olga Beresnyeva
- Tatyana Devyatova
- Sergey Fesenko, Sr. – Olympic champion
- Yuriy Hromak
- Pavlo Khnykin
- Olga Kirichenko
- Yana Klochkova – Olympic champion
- Serhiy Krasyuk
- Lenny Krayzelburg – 4x Olympic champion
- Yelena Kruglova
- Oleg Lisogor
- Maxim Podoprigora
- Georgy Prokopenko – Olympic champion
- Galina Prozumenshchikova – Olympic champion
- Volodymyr Raskatov
- Andriy Serdinov
- Oleksandr Sydorenko – Olympic champion
- Denys Sylantyev
- Volodymyr Tkachenko
- Marina Yurchenya