Vitaliy Polyanskyy (judoka)
Ukrainian judoka (born 1981)
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Vitaliy Oleksandovych Polyanskyi (Ukrainian: Віталій Олександрович Полянський; born 26 January 1981 in Dnipropetrovsk) is a Ukrainian judoka, who competed in the men's heavyweight category.[1] He held two Ukrainian titles in both his own division and the open event, picked up a bronze medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, and represented his nation Ukraine at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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| Full name | VITALIY POLYANSKYY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | SLON | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 January 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Toronto, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Judoka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Judo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | –100 kg, +100 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Academy Customs of Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | TAIFU Dnipro, TAIFU Toronto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Danil Volovich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| IJF | 6054 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| JudoInside.com | 11233 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Updated on 17 February 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Polyanskyy was selected to the Ukrainian squad in the men's heavyweight class (+100 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, as a result of the nation's top nine finish in the European Judo Union ranking list. Polyanskyy opened his match with a brilliant ippon victory and an ōuchi gari (big inner reap) over Egypt's Islam El Shehaby, before he fell in his next bout with a waza-ari awasete ippon defeat to Italy's Paolo Bianchessi. With Bianchessi moving forward to the medal podium phase, Polyanskyy gave himself a chance for an Olympic bronze medal through the repechage round, but lost to South Korea's Kim Sung-bum by an ippon and a tani otoshi (valley drop) within a halfway time into their first playoff of the draft.[2][3]
