Viktoriya Viktorivna Tkachuk ( uk, Вікторія Вікторівна Ткачук; born 8 November 1994) is a Ukrainian

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specialising in the

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. She won the silver medal in the event at the

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. Tkachuk represented Ukraine at the

2016 Rio Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

without advancing from the semi-finals, and at the

2020 Tokyo Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...

, where she placed sixth in the final. Her personal best in the 400 metres hurdles is 53.76 seconds, set in 2021 in

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* 1994 births Living people Ukrainian female hurdlers World Athletics Championships athletes for Ukraine Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Ukraine Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Khmelnytskyi Oblast European Athletics Championships medalists {{Ukraine-athletics-bio-stub