The Ukrainian Athletic Federation (UAF) ( uk, Федерація легкої атлетики України (ФЛАУ)) - is the governing body for the sport of athletics in

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. Acting President of the Athletics Federation of Ukraine in January 2023 was Yevhen Pronin.

History

UAF was founded in 1991 and was affiliated to the

IAAF World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for ...

in 1993. Former presidents: * 1991–1996: Yuriy Tumasov * 1996–2012:

Valeriy Borzov Valeriy Pylypovych Borzov ( uk, Валерій Пилипович Борзов; russian: Валерий Филиппович Борзов, Valeriy Filippovich Borzov; born 20 October 1949) is a former Soviet sprinter. He is a two-time Olympian, ...

* 2012-2020: Ihor Hotsul * 2020-22:

Ravil Safiullin Ravil Safiullin ( uk, Сафіуллін Равіль Сафович; born February 4, 1955, in Makiivka) was Ukraine's Minister of Youth and Sports. Biography Ravil Safiullin was born in a Tatar family. Prior to his ministerial position, Safiu ...

* 2020-22: Yevhen Pronin

Affiliations

UAF is the national member federation for

in the following international organisations: *

World Athletics World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for ...

(WA) *

European Athletics The European Athletic Association (more commonly known as European Athletics) is the governing body for athletics in Europe. It is one of the six Area Associations of the world's athletics governing body World Athletics. European Athletics has 51 ...

(EA) * Association of Balkan Athletic Federations (ABAF)

National records

UAF maintains the

Ukrainian records in athletics Ukrainian records in athletics are the Ukrainian athletes' results which Ukrainian Athletics acknowledges to be the best in certain athletics events. The procedure for ratification of Ukrainian national records is largely based on the approach ...

Kit suppliers

Ukraine's kits are currently supplied by Nike.

References

External links

Official website
{{National Members of the International Association of Athletics Federations

Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...

Athletics in Ukraine National governing bodies for athletics Sports organizations established in 1991 1991 establishments in Ukraine