Vasyl Matviychuk or Vasyl Oleksandrovych Matviichuk ( uk, Василь Олександрович Матвійчук; born 13 January 1982) is a

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Career

Matviychuk is a three-time national champion for the 5000 and 10,000 metres. In 2001, he won the gold medal in the junior division at the

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, Switzerland, with a time of 19 minutes and 29 seconds. He also set a personal best time of 2:10:36, by finishing fifth at the 2008

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. Matviychuk represented

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at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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, where he competed for the men's marathon, along with his compatriots Oleksandr Kuzin and Oleksandr Sitkovskyy. He successfully finished the race in twenty-seventh place by eight seconds behind Morocco's Abderrahime Bouramdane, with a time of 2:17:50. He was one of the subjects of the

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, Spirit of the Marathon II, featuring his unsuccessful attempt to earn a spot in the Ukrainian Olympic team for the 2012 Summer Olympics at the 2012

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References

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NBC Olympics Profile
Ukrainian male long-distance runners Ukrainian male marathon runners Living people Olympic athletes for Ukraine Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics People from Kamianets-Podilskyi 1982 births Sportspeople from Khmelnytskyi Oblast {{Ukraine-athletics-bio-stub