Vasyl Rachyba
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UkraineDolyna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
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| Full name | Vasyl Dmyrovych Rachyba | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 January 1982 Dolyna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 88 kg (194 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | Greco-Roman | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | CSKA Kyiv[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Yury Tsikolenko[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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Vasyl Dmyrovych Rachyba (Ukrainian: Василь Дмитрович Рачиба; born January 27, 1982, in Dolyna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast) is an amateur Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's light heavyweight category.[1][2] He defeated Russia's Alan Khugayev for the gold medal in his respective division at the 2011 European Wrestling Championships in Dortmund, Germany.[3] Rachyba is also a member of the wrestling team for CSKA Kyiv, and is coached and trained by Yury Tsikolenko.[1]
Rachyba represented Ukraine at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed for the men's 84 kg class. He defeated Tunisian wrestler and two-time Olympian Haykel Achouri in the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out the quarterfinal match to Georgia's Vladimer Gegeshidze, with a three-set technical score (1–2, 3–0, 0–1), and a classification point score of 1–3.[4]
