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Ukraine At The 2020 Summer Olympics
Ukraine competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. It was the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era with its smallest representation ever.Olympic anti-record
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Ukraine racked up 19 medals in Tokyo, a significant improvement over its
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National Olympic Committee Of Ukraine
The National Olympic Committee of Ukraine ( uk, Нацiональний олiмпiйський комiтет України) is a non-profit all-Ukrainian public organization responsible for development, reinforcement, and protection of the Olympic movement. The committee has an exclusive right to represent Ukraine in the Olympic Games and other competitions of the International Olympic Committee. History The history of the Olympic movement in Ukraine started in 1952 when Ukrainian athletes participated at the Games of the XV Olympiad in Helsinki as a part of the U.S.S.R. Team for the first time. During 1952 - 1990 the Olympic movement in Ukraine was developing and strengthening its position in the country's life. Ukrainian athletes constituted at least 25% of the composition of each USSR Olympic team. During the Games of the XXII Olympiad in 1980 some matches of football tournament took place in Kyiv and it was a great success. On 22 December 1990 the First General Assembly ...
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Swimming At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 Metre Freestyle
The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 30 July and 1 August 2021 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. It will be the event's twenty-seventh consecutive appearance, having been held at every edition since 1904. Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. Qualification The Olympic Qualifying Time for the event is 15:00.99. Up to two swimmers per National Olympic Committee (NOC) can automatically qualify by swimming that time at an approved qualification event. The Olympic Selection Time is 15:28.02. Up to one swimmer per NOC meeting that time is eligible for selection, allocated by world ranking until the maximum quota for all swimming events is reached. NOCs without a male swimmer qualified in any event can also use their universality place. Competition format The competition consists of two rounds: heats and a final. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the heats advance to the final. Swim-offs ...
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Cycling At The 2020 Summer Olympics
The cycling competitions of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured 22 events in five disciplines. Cycling competitions had been contested in every Summer Olympics programme since the first modern Olympiad in 1896 alongside athletics, artistic gymnastics, fencing and swimming. Since the 1896 contests which featured five track events and an 87 km road race from Athens to Marathon and back, Olympic cycling had gradually evolved to include women's competitions, mountain bike and BMX to arrive at the current 22 events. The cycling program for this edition was expanded with 4 more events than those held in 2016. BMX freestyle was added in the program for the first time and there will also be a return of Madison events on the track that had been removed from the Olympic program in 2008. The award of the extra events was widely seen as a reward for the agreement of the UCI that the track cycling and mountain bike events be taken out of Tokyo and held in Izu, Shizuoka, allowi ...
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Olena Starikova
Olena Viktorivna Starikova ( uk, Олена Вікторівна Старікова; born 22 April 1996) is a Ukrainian track cyclist. She represented her nation at the 2014 and 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Career results ;2014 :Grand Prix Galichyna ::1st Keirin ::1st Team Sprint (with Olena Tsyos) ::2nd Sprint ::2nd 500m Time Trial :3rd Sprint, Grand Prix of Poland (U23) ;2015 :Grand Prix Galichyna ::1st 500m Time Trial ::2nd Sprint ::3rd Keirin :2nd Team Sprint, Grand Prix of Poland (with Lyubov Basova) :3rd Team Sprint, Grand Prix Minsk (with Lyubov Basova) :3rd Team Sprint, Memorial of Alexander Lesnikov (with Lyubov Basova) ;2016 :Grand Prix Galichyna ::1st Keirin ::1st Sprint ::1st 500m Time Trial :3rd Sprint, Prilba Moravy ;2021 ::4th Keirin, Olympic Games ::2nd Sprint Sprint may refer to: Aerospace *Spring WS202 Sprint, a Canadian aircraft design *Sprint (missile), an anti-ballistic missile Automotive and motorcycle *Alfa Romeo Sprint, automobile produ ...
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Boxing At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's Middleweight
The men's middleweight boxing event at the 2020 Summer Olympics is scheduled to take place between 26 July and 7 August 2021 at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan. 25 boxers from 25 nations are expected to compete. Background This will be the 26th appearance of the men's middleweight event. The event appeared at the first Olympic boxing tournament in 1904 and has been held at every Games with boxing (that is, excluding 1912) since. The middleweight class remains at the 69–75 kg range it has used since the 2004 Games. Reigning World Champion Gleb Bakshi of Russia has qualified for the Games. The 2016 Olympic champion, Arlen López of Cuba, has moved up to the light-heavyweight class for the 2020 Games. Qualification A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter only 1 qualified boxer in the weight class. There were 24 quota places available for the men's middleweight, allocated as follows: * 1 place for the host nation, Japan. * 3 places at the 2020 African Boxing Olympic Qualificati ...
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Boxing At The 2020 Summer Olympics
The boxing tournaments at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place from 24 July to 8 August 2021 at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan. Thirteen events were staged, the same number as in London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016. However, for the first time since the London Games, the programme has been updated, with the number of men's events reduced by two and the number of women's events increased by the same number. On 22 May 2019, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that the International Boxing Association (AIBA) had been stripped of the right to organise the tournament, due to "issues in the areas of finance, governance, ethics and refereeing and judging". Boxing will instead be organised by an ad-hoc task force led by Morinari Watanabe, president of the International Gymnastics Federation. Competition format On March 23, 2013, the AIBA instituted significant changes to the format. The World Series of Boxing, AIBA's pro team league which started in 2010, alre ...
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Oleksandr Khyzhniak
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Khyzhniak ( uk, Олександр Олександрович Хижняк; born 3 August 1995) is a Ukrainian amateur boxer. He won gold medals at the 2017 World Championships, 2017 European Championships and the 2019 European Games , translation: Time for bright victories! , nations participating = 50 , athletes participating = 4,082 , events = 200 in 15 sports , opening ceremony = 21 June , closing ceremony = 30 June , officially opened .... References External links * 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Poltava Ukrainian male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists European Games gold medalists for Ukraine European Games bronze medalists for Ukraine European Games medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2015 European Games Boxers at the 2019 European Games Middleweight boxers Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for U ...
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Canoeing At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's C-2 500 Metres
The women's C-2 500 metres sprint canoeing event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 6 and 7 August 2021 at the Sea Forest Waterway. 26 canoeists (13 boats of 2) from 13 nations competed. Background This was the debut appearance of the event, replacing the men's K-2 200 metres as the Olympics moved towards gender equality. The reigning World Champions were Sun Mengya and Xu Shixiao of China. Qualification A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter only 1 qualified boat (2 canoeists) in the event. A total of 13 qualification places were available, initially allocated as follows: * 8 places awarded through the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, the 45th edition of the World Championships, were held in Szeged, Hungary from 21 to 25 August 2019. The championships served as the primary qualification regatta for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic ... * 5 places awarded through continental tournaments, 1 per cont ...
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Canoeing At The 2020 Summer Olympics
Canoeing at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was contested in two main disciplines: canoe slalom, to take place from 25 to 30 July 2021, and canoe sprint, from 2 to 7 August. The slalom competitions will be held at the Kasai Canoe Slalom Course; whereas the sprint events will be staged at Sea Forest Waterway. The competition featured 16 events. The programme saw four event changes, all replacements, from 2016. In sprint, the men's C-1 200 metres and men's K-2 200 metres were replaced with women's C-1 200 metres and women's C-2 500 metres. In slalom, the men's C-2 was removed. Women's C-1 was added. These three changes were part of the Olympics' move towards gender equality. In addition, the sprint men's K-4 1000 metres was replaced with a shorter race, the men's K-4 500 metres. Qualification Competition schedule Participating nations Below is the list of NOCs participants in the canoeing competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ...
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Anastasiia Chetverikova
Anastasiia Andriyivna Chetverikova ( uk, Анастасія Андріївна Четверікова; born 1998) is a Ukrainian sprint canoeist. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the women's C-2 500 metres. She won her first senior international medal at the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, the 45th edition of the World Championships, were held in Szeged, Hungary from 21 to 25 August 2019. The championships served as the primary qualification regatta for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic .... References External links * 1998 births Living people ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Ukrainian female canoeists European Games competitors for Ukraine Canoeists at the 2019 European Games Olympic canoeists for Ukraine Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Ukraine Olympic medalists in can ...
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Karate At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 55 Kg
The women's kumite 55 kg competition in Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 5 August 2021 at the Nippon Budokan. Competition format The competition began with a two-pool round-robin stage followed by a single elimination stage. Each pool consisted of 4 or 5 athletes, with those positioned 1st and 4th seeded to Pool A, and those positioned 2nd and 3rd to Pool B. The athlete that finished first in Pool A faced the athlete that finished second in Pool B in the semifinals, and vice versa. There were no bronze medal matches in the kumite events. Losers of the semifinals each received a bronze medal. Schedule All times are in local time (UTC+9 UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:00. During the Japanese occupations of British Borneo, Burma, Hong Kong, Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Philippines, Singapore, and French Indochina, it was used as a common time with ...). Results Pool stage ;Pool A ;Pool B Finals References External li ...
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Karate At The 2020 Summer Olympics
Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics was an event held in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. It was the debut appearance of karate at the Summer Olympics. Karate was one of four new sports added to the Olympic program specifically for 2020, rather than as a permanent sport. The karate competitions at the 2020 Olympics featured eight events. Two karate disciplines were featured: kumite was the sparring discipline and had three weight classes each for men and women; kata was the solo form discipline, and had one event each for men and women. Competitors chose the kata to demonstrate from 102 kata that were recognized by the World Karate Federation. Competitors were not allowed to demonstrate the same kata twice during the tournament. Each event had 10 competitors. The three weight classes in Olympic competition for kumite were in contrast to the five normally used by the World Karate Federation (WKF). The two lightest (-60kg and -67kg for men, -50kg and -55kg for women) were ...
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