Ihor Olehovych Stakhiv ( uk, Ігор Олегович Стахів, born 30 July 1999 in
Lviv,
Ukraine) is a Ukrainian
luge
A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face up) and feet-first. A luger steers by using the calf muscles to flex the sled's runners or by exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Racing sleds weigh for s ...
r.
Career
Stakhiv started his sporting career as a singles rider. At the
2016 Winter Youth Olympics
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in
Lillehammer
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,
Norway, he finished 13th in the
boys' singles competition. He was also 7th in
team relay (together with
Smaha,
Lysetskyy, and
Levkovych).
Stakhiv's first
World Cup season was the
2016-17 season when he competed in
Pyeongchang
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,
South Korea. He finished 33rd in his first and only singles race at the World Cup.
Later, he switched to doubles and was teamed with
Andrii Lysetskyi
Andrii Volodymyrovych Lysetskyi ( uk, Андрій Володимирович Лисецький, born 10 February 1998) is a Ukrainian luger.
Career
At the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, Lysetskyi finished together with L ...
. Their first World Cup race was during the
2018-19 season in
Igls,
Austria, where they finished 20th. As of February 2022, Stakhiv's best World Cup finish was 10th in the
2019-20 season in
Winterberg
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Geography
Winterberg is located in the middle of ...
,
Germany.
In 2022, Ihor Stakhiv was nominated for his first
Winter Games in
Beijing.
Personal life
Dukach studied
physical culture and
sports at the
Lviv State University of Physical Culture.
Career results
Winter Olympics
World Championships
European Championships
Luge World Cup
Rankings
References
External links
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1999 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Lviv
Ukrainian male lugers
Olympic lugers for Ukraine
Lugers at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
Lugers at the 2022 Winter Olympics