Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Lukyanenko ( uk, Віталій Володимирович Лук'яненко, born 15 May 1978) is a

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biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and shooting sports, rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into sh ...

, cross-country skier, and

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. He is classified B3 (under 10% functional vision), and competes in the visually impaired category. He competed at the

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, winning a gold medal in the men's 6 kilometres and

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biathlon events.

Career

Lukyanenko began skiing at age ten. At the

2002 Winter Paralympics The 2002 Winter Paralympics, the eighth Paralympic Winter Games, were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, from March 7 to 16, 2002. A total of 416 athletes from 36 nations participated. They were the first Winter Paralympics in the Ameri ...

he competed in

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and

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. In cross-country skiing, he took the bronze medal in the 5 km classical technique, B3. He placed 16th in the 20 km free technique, 4th in the 10 km free technique, B3, and 5th in the men's relay. In biathlon, he placed 11th in the 7.5 km free technique, blind. Lukyanenko competed in

and

cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics At the 2006 Winter Paralympics, 20 cross-country skiing events were contested at Pragelato. Medal table men's relay with Volodymyr Ivanov, Vladyslav Morozov, and

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. He placed 7th in the men's 5 km, visually impaired. In biathlon, he took the gold medal in 12.5 km, and silver in 7.5 km, blind. Lukyanenko competed in

and

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in Vancouver, Canada. In cross-country skiing he won silver in the men's relay, open with Ivanov,

Grygorii Vovchynskyi Grygorii Vasylovych Vovchynskyi ( uk, Григорій Васильович Вовчинський, born 4 July 1988) is a Ukrainian biathlete, cross-country skier, and Paralympian. He is classified LW8 (single arm amputation), and compete in c ...

, and Iurii Kostiuk. He placed 5th in the men's 1 km sprint, visually impaired. In biathlon, he took the bronze medal in the 12.5 km, and the gold medal in the men's 3 km pursuit, visually impaired. His

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at the 2002, 2006, and 2010 Paralympics was Volodymyr Ivanov. In biathlon, he won the gold medals in the men's 6 km and 10 kilometres visually impaired events, and a silver medal in the 12.5 kilometres visually impaired event at the

held in Beijing, China.

Personal life

Lukyanenko was born in

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. He has two daughters.

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