Volodymyr Kostiuk ( uk, Володимир Костюк; born 25 June 2003)
is a Ukrainian
artistic gymnast
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...
who competed at the inaugural
Junior World Championships.
Career
Junior
2019
Kostiuk was selected to represent Ukraine at the
inaugural junior World Championships alongside
Nazar Chepurnyi
Nazar Vyacheslavovich Chepurnyi ( uk, Назар Вячеславович Чепурний; born 3 September 2002) is a Ukrainian artistic gymnast. He participated in the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and the 2019 Junior World Artistic Gymnastics C ...
and
Illia Kovtun
Illia Yuriyovych Kovtun ( uk, Ілля Юрійович Ковтун; born 10 August 2003) is a Ukrainian artistic gymnast who competed at the 2020 Olympic Games. He is the 2021 World and European all-around bronze medalist, and is a two-time ...
. Together they finished second as a team behind Japan.
Kostiuk next competed at the
European Youth Olympic Festival
The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) is a biennial multi-sport event for youth (14 to 18 years old) athletes from the 50 member countries of the association of European Olympic Committees. The festival has a summer edition, held for the fir ...
in Baku, Azerbaijan, again alongside Chepurnyi and Kovtun. They won gold as a team and individually Kostiuk won silver on parallel bars and bronze on pommel horse.
2020
Kostiuk competed at the
2020 European Championships held in Mersin, Turkey. While there he helped the Ukrainian junior team win gold.
Individually he won silver in the all-around behind compatriot
Illia Kovtun
Illia Yuriyovych Kovtun ( uk, Ілля Юрійович Ковтун; born 10 August 2003) is a Ukrainian artistic gymnast who competed at the 2020 Olympic Games. He is the 2021 World and European all-around bronze medalist, and is a two-time ...
and won silver on rings and bronze on horizontal bar.
Senior
2021
Kostiuk turned senior in 2021 and made his senior international debut at the
2021 European Championships; he finished seventh in the all-around.
2022
About a month after
Russia invaded Ukraine, Kostiuk was drafted into the
Armed Forces of Ukraine
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Competitive history
References
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Living people
2003 births
People from Dnipro
Ukrainian male artistic gymnasts
Medalists at the Junior World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
21st-century Ukrainian people