Ukraine at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Ukraine at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Valentina Shevchenko (opening)[1] Vita Semerenko (closing)[2]
Medals Ranked 20th	Gold 1 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 2
Winter Olympics appearances ( overview)
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Other related appearances
Czechoslovakia (1924–1936)  Poland (1924–1936)  Romania (1924–1936)  Soviet Union (1956–1988)  Unified Team (1992)

Ukraine competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from 7 to 23 February 2014. The National Olympic Committee of Ukraine sent a total of 43 athletes.^[3]

The women's relay victory gave Ukraine its second Winter Games gold medal ever.^[4] The first was won by Oksana Baiul at the 1994 Winter Olympics.^[5] On 22 February, cross-country skier Maryna Lisohor was excluded from the Olympics after testing positive for trimetazidine.^[6]

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Olena Pidhrushna	Biathlon	Women's relay	21 February
Bronze	Vita Semerenko	Biathlon	Women's sprint	9 February

Alpine skiing

Ukraine qualified 2 berths, one male and one female.

Biathlon

Based on their performance at the 2012 and 2013 Biathlon World Championships, Ukraine qualified 5 men and 6 women.^[7]

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Juliya Dzhyma	Sprint	22:55.5	3 (1+2)	42
	Pursuit	DNS
	Individual	45:49.9	1 (0+1+0+0)	7
	Mass start	38:10.8	4 (0+0+2+2)	22
Olena Pidhrushna	Sprint	22:12.8	1 (0+1)	26
	Pursuit	31:54.2	1 (0+0+0+1)	22
	Individual	45:59.5	1 (0+0+0+1)	8
	Mass start	36:37.1	0 (0+0+0+0)	7
Valj Semerenko	Sprint	21:44.9	1 (0+1)	12
	Pursuit	30:23.6	1 (1+0+0+0)	5
	Individual	47:28.2	2 (1+0+1+0)	19
	Mass start	37:03.5	2 (0+0+2+0)	12
Vita Semerenko	Sprint	21:28.5	0 (0+0)
	Pursuit	30:40.3	2 (0+1+1+0)	10
	Individual	48:29.2	3 (0+0+0+3)	29
	Mass start	37:16.1	1 (0+0+1+0)	16
Valj Semerenko Vita Semerenko	Team relay	1:10:02.5	5 (0+5)

Mixed

Cross-country skiing

Ukraine qualified 7 berths.

Distance

Men

Women

Sprint

Men

Women

According to press reports Lisogor and Serdyuk had refused to start because they had been denied to wear black arm bands to honor those killed

Ukraine has achieved the following quota places:

Team trophy

Freestyle skiing

Ukraine qualified 7 berths, three male and four female (all aerial).

Aerials

Luge

Ukraine has qualified a total of six athletes and a spot in the team relay.

Nordic combined

Ukraine qualified one male athlete.

Short track speed skating

Ukraine qualified 1 woman in the 1000 m for the Olympics during World Cup 3 and 4 in November 2013.

Women

Qualification legend: ADV – Advanced due to being impeded by another skater; FA – Qualify to medal round; FB – Qualify to consolation round

Snowboarding

Ukraine qualified 2 berths, one male and one female (all parallel).

Alpine

Concerns and controversies

On 19 February 2014, Ukrainian athletes asked for and were refused permission by the

On 20 February 2014, the Ukrainian NOC reported that as many as half of the Ukrainian athletes at the Olympics had left the games to return home.^[14] But according to Ukrainian NOC president Serhiy Bubka they had returned home in compliance with their original schedule, and their departure was thus not related to the riots in Kyiv.^[15] According to Bubka, the remaining athletes did plan to participate in the closing ceremony.^[15] In a statement on 20 February 2014, the Ukrainian team had expressed condolences for the dead and stated, "We are thinking about our families and loved ones back home in Ukraine, and we are doing our best to honour them on the fields of play here in Sochi. We appeal for peace and mutual understanding to find a positive way forward for Ukraine".^[16]

Figure skater

• Ukraine at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

References