Vasyl Dmyrovych Rachyba ( uk, Василь Дмитрович Рачиба; born January 27, 1982, in
Dolyna Raion
Dolyna Raion ( uk, Доли́нський райо́н, translit=Dolynśkyi rajon) was a raion (administrative district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Ukraine. The city of Dolyna was the administrative center of the raion. The raion was abolished ...
,
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вська о́бласть, translit=Ivano-Frankivska oblast), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вщина), is an administrative divisions of Ukrain ...
) is an amateur Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's light heavyweight category.
He defeated Russia's
Alan Khugayev
Alan Anatolyevich Khugaev (russian: Алан Анатольевич Хугаев, os, Хуыгаты Анатолийы фырт Алан);born 27 April 1989 in Vladikavkaz) is a Russian wrestler of Ossetian origin. He won the gold medal at ...
for the gold medal in his respective division at the
2011 European Wrestling Championships
The 2011 FILA European Wrestling Championships were held in Dortmund, Germany, from 29 March to 3 April 2011.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
Women's freestyle
External linksOfficial website
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Dortmund, Germany. Rachyba is also a member of the wrestling team for CSKA Kyiv, and is coached and trained by Yury Tsikolenko.
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Rachyba represented Ukraine at the ]2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
in London, where he competed for the men's 84 kg class. He defeated Tunisian wrestler and two-time Olympian Haykel Achouri
Haykel Al-Achouri (also Haykel Achouri, ar, هيكل العاشوري; born August 29, 1984, in Tunis) is an amateur Tunisian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's light heavyweight category. He is a multiple-time African wrestling cham ...
in the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out the quarterfinal match to Georgia's Vladimer Gegeshidze, with a three-set technical score (1–2, 3–0, 0–1), and a classification point score of 1–3.
References
External links
NBC Olympics Profile
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1982 births
Living people
Olympic wrestlers for Ukraine
Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Ukrainian male sport wrestlers
Sportspeople from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
21st-century Ukrainian sportspeople
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