Vasyl Petrovych Fedoryshyn (; born 31 March 1981) is a male

wrestler Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves diffe ...

from

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

, who competes in the men's -60 kg freestyle division.

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Fedoryshyn was born in Kalush,

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...

. He competed in wrestling at the

2009 Maccabiah Games The 18th Maccabiah Games (), were held in July 2009. According to the organizing committee these were the largest games held yet. These Games were the world's fifth-largest sporting event, behind the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, World Poli ...

. Fedoryshyn finished fourth in the Men's Lightweight Freestyle event at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

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, won a silver medal in the same event at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...

in Beijing, and was eliminated in the first round of the 2012 Olympic tournament by Malkhaz Zarkua of Georgia. He won a bronze medal in the 60 kg event at the

2009 FILA Wrestling World Championships The 2009 World Wrestling Championships were held at the Messecenter Herning in Herning, Denmark. The event took place from September 21 to September 27, 2009. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Men's freestyle Men's Greco-Roman Women ...

. and a silver medal in the same discipline at the 2010 edition, losing to

Besik Kudukhov Besik Serodinovich Kudukhov (, ; 15 August 1986 – 29 December 2013) was a Russian freestyle wrestler of Ossetian descent. He won a bronze medal in the 55 kg category at the 2008 Olympics. He also won a silver medal in the 60 kg cat ...

of Russia in the final. On 5 April 2017, it was announced that, as a result of retesting samples, he had been disqualified from the 2008 Olympics for a drug violation, and his silver medal withdrawn.

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* 1981 births Living people People from Kalush, Ukraine Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic wrestlers for Ukraine Competitors at the 2009 Maccabiah Games Maccabiah Games wrestlers Maccabiah Games competitors for Ukraine Ukrainian male sport wrestlers World Wrestling Championships medalists Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals Doping cases in wrestling Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases Sportspeople from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 21st-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-wrestling-bio-stub

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