Ivan Kytsenko is a

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from

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competing mainly in category F12 long and triple jump events.

Biography

Ivan has competed and medaled in three Paralympics starting in

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where he won a silver in the F13 long jump but missed out on the pentathlon. Four years later in

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having been classified as F12 he missed out in the long jump but did pick up a bronze medal in the triple jump. In his third games in

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he won his third medal, a silver, in the F12 triple jump.

External links

* Paralympic athletes for Ukraine Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic silver medalists for Ukraine Paralympic bronze medalists for Ukraine Living people Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) {{Ukraine-Paralympic-medalist-stub