List of Ukrainian sportspeople

This is a list of notable Ukrainian sportspeople.

American football

 * Igor Olshansky – American football

Archery

 * Nataliya Burdeyna – Olympic silver medalist
 * Dmytro Hrachov – Olympic bronze medalist
 * Viktor Ruban – Olympic champion
 * Olena Sadovnycha – Olympic silver medalist
 * Kateryna Serdyuk – Olympic silver medalist
 * Oleksandr Serdyuk – Olympic bronze medalist
 * Victor Sidoruk
 * Stanislav Zabrodsky

Athletics

 * Olena Antonova
 * Inha Babakova
 * Oleksandr Bagach
 * Bohdan Bondarenko
 * Yelyzaveta Bryzhina
 * Sergey Bubka – Olympic champion
 * Nataliya Dobrynska – Olympic champion
 * Olena Hovorova
 * Olena Krasovska – Olympic silver medalist
 * Inessa Kravets – Olympic champion
 * Oleksandr Krykun
 * Iryna Lishchynska
 * Faina Melnik – 11 world records; Olympic discus throw champion
 * Nadiya Olizarenko
 * Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, sprinter, world 100-m & 200-m champion
 * Olesya Povh
 * Oleksandr Pyatnytsya
 * Mariya Ryemyen
 * Olha Saladuha
 * Roman Shchurenko
 * Hrystyna Stuy
 * Vita Styopina
 * Kateryna Tabashnyk (born 1994), high jumper
 * Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova
 * Nataliya Tobias
 * Denys Yurchenko

Baseball

 * Bill Cristall
 * Reuben Ewing
 * Izzy Goldstein

Basketball

 * Alexander Belostenny
 * Sergiy Gladyr
 * Natalya Klimova
 * Viacheslav Kravtsov
 * Raisa Kurvyakova
 * Alex Len
 * Slava Medvedenko
 * Oleksiy Pecherov
 * Anatoli Polivoda
 * Vitaly Potapenko
 * Lyudmila Rogozhina
 * Anton Shoutvin
 * Marina Tkachenko
 * Vladimir Tkachenko
 * Alexander Volkov
 * Tetiana Zakharova-Nadyrova

Biathlon

 * Olexander Bilanenko
 * Andriy Deryzemlya
 * Juliya Dzhyma – Olympic champion
 * Lilia Efremova – Olympic bronze medalist
 * Pavlo Ishchenko – 2x European Amateur Boxing Championships medalist, and European Games medalist
 * Oksana Khvostenko
 * Nina Lemesh
 * Olena Petrova – Olympic silver medalist
 * Olena Pidhrushna – Olympic champion
 * Serhiy Sednev
 * Serhiy Semenov
 * Valj Semerenko – Olympic champion
 * Vita Semerenko – Olympic champion
 * Valentina Tserbe-Nessina – Olympic bronze medalist
 * Tetyana Vodopyanova
 * Olena Zubrilova

Boxing

 * Denys Berinchyk
 * Serhiy Danylchenko
 * Serhiy Dotsenko – Olympic silver medalist
 * Andriy Fedchuk
 * Vyacheslav Glazkov
 * Oleksandr Hvozdyk
 * Oleg Kiryukhin
 * Vitali Klitschko – Professional boxer
 * Wladimir Klitschko – Olympic champion, professional boxer
 * Andreas Kotelnik – Olympic silver medalist
 * Ihor Korobchynskyi
 * Vasyl Lomachenko – Olympic champion
 * Grigory Misutin
 * Taras Shelestyuk
 * Volodymyr Sydorenko
 * Oleksandr Usyk – Olympic champion

Canoeing

 * Hanna Balabanova
 * Yuriy Cheban – Olympic champion
 * Olena Cherevatova
 * Inna Osypenko-Radomska – Olympic champion
 * Tetyana Semykina

Cycling

 * Yana Belomoyna
 * Serhiy Cherniavskiy
 * Oleksandr Fedenko
 * Lesya Kalytovska
 * Sergiy Matveyev
 * Hanna Solovey
 * Alexander Symonenko
 * Iryna Yanovych

Cross-country skiing

 * Alexander Batyuk
 * Valentina Shevchenko
 * Iryna Taranenko-Terelia

Diving

 * Illya Kvasha
 * Oleksiy Pryhorov
 * Ganna Sorokina
 * Olena Zhupina

Equestrian

 * Vera Misevich

Fencing

 * Vadim Gutzeit – Olympic champion
 * Olha Kharlan – Olympic champion
 * Olena Khomrova – Olympic champion
 * Halyna Pundyk – Olympic champion
 * Yana Shemyakina – Olympic champion
 * Vladyslav Tretiak
 * Olha Zhovnir – Olympic champion

Figure skating

 * Oksana Baiul – Olympic champion
 * Alexei Beletski – Olympican
 * Oleksii Bychenko – 2016 European silver medallist, Olympian
 * Elena Grushina – Olympic bronze medalist
 * Ruslan Goncharov – Olympic bronze medalist
 * Natalia Gudina – Olympian
 * Viktor Petrenko – Olympic champion

Football

 * Yevhen Konoplyanka
 * Andriy Oberemko
 * Serhii Rebrov
 * Andriy Shevchenko
 * Anatoliy Tymoshchuk
 * Andriy Voronin

Freestyle skiing

 * Olha Volkova

Gymnastics

 * Alexander Beresch
 * Anna Bessonova
 * Nina Bocharova
 * Viktor Chukarin
 * Olena Dvornichenko
 * Valeri Goncharov
 * Dmytro Leonkin
 * Tatiana Lysenko – 2x Olympic champion
 * Valeria Maksyuta
 * Yuri Nikitin
 * Katerina Pisetsky
 * Lilia Podkopayeva
 * Ihor Radivilov
 * Kateryna Serebrianska
 * Rustam Sharipov
 * Olena Vitrychenko
 * Oleksandr Vorobiov
 * Roman Zozulya

Handball

 * Anastasiia Pidpalova
 * Nataliya Borysenko
 * Ganna Burmystrova
 * Iryna Honcharova
 * Nataliya Lyapina
 * Galyna Markushevska
 * Olena Radchenko
 * Oxana Rayhel
 * Lyudmyla Shevchenko
 * Tetyana Shynkarenko
 * Ganna Siukalo
 * Olena Tsyhytsia
 * Maryna Vergelyuk
 * Olena Yatsenko
 * Larysa Zaspa

Ice hockey

 * Ivan Pravilov (1963–2012), ice hockey coach, arrested for sexual abuse of teenage student, committed suicide by hanging in prison

Judo

 * Roman Hontyuk
 * Ruslan Mashurenko

Luge

 * Natalia Yakushenko

Modern pentathlon

 * Victoria Tereshchuk

Rowing

 * Serhiy Biloushchenko
 * Yana Dementyeva – Olympic champion
 * Nataliya Dovhodko – Olympic champion
 * Inna Frolova – Olympic silver medalist
 * Serhiy Hryn
 * Anastasiya Kozhenkova – Olympic champion
 * Oleh Lykov
 * Svitlana Maziy – Olympic silver medalist
 * Dina Miftakhutdynova – Olympic silver medalist
 * Olena Ronzhyna – Olympic silver medalist
 * Leonid Shaposhnykov
 * Kateryna Tarasenko – Olympic champion

Rugby league

 * Ian Rubin

Sailing

 * Yevhen Braslavets – Olympic champion
 * Ganna Kalinina
 * George Leonchuk
 * Rodion Luka
 * Valentin Mankin – Olympic champion, only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes
 * Svitlana Matevusheva
 * Ihor Matviyenko – Olympic champion
 * Olena Pakholchyk
 * Ruslana Taran

Shooting

 * Artur Ayvazyan – Olympic champion
 * Mykola Milchev – Olympic champion
 * Olena Kostevych – Olympic champion
 * Oleksandr Petriv – Olympic champion
 * Jury Sukhorukov

Short track speed skating

 * Vladimir Grigorev

Speed skating

 * Oleg Goncharenko

Swimming

 * Olga Beresnyeva
 * Tatyana Devyatova
 * Sergey Fesenko, Sr. – Olympic champion
 * Yuriy Hromak
 * Pavlo Khnykin
 * Olga Kirichenko
 * Yana Klochkova – Olympic champion
 * Serhiy Krasyuk
 * Lenny Krayzelburg – 4x Olympic champion
 * Yelena Kruglova
 * Oleg Lisogor
 * Maxim Podoprigora
 * Georgy Prokopenko – Olympic champion
 * Galina Prozumenshchikova – Olympic champion
 * Volodymyr Raskatov
 * Andriy Serdinov
 * Oleksandr Sydorenko – Olympic champion
 * Denys Sylantyev
 * Volodymyr Tkachenko
 * Marina Yurchenya

Table tennis

 * Marina Kravchenko

Tennis

 * Alona Bondarenko
 * Kateryna Bondarenko
 * Alexandr Dolgopolov
 * Olga Fridman
 * Julia Glushko
 * Andriy Medvedev
 * Sergiy Stakhovsky
 * Elina Svitolina

Volleyball

 * Volodymyr Byelyayev
 * Volodymyr Ivanov
 * Valeriy Kryvov
 * Yevhen Lapinsky
 * Fedir Lashchonov
 * Viktor Mikhalchuk
 * Oleg Moliboga
 * Yury Panchenko
 * Anatoliy Polishchuk
 * Yuriy Poyarkov
 * Eduard Sibiryakov
 * Oleksandr Sorokalet
 * Borys Tereshchuk
 * Yury Vengerovsky

Water polo

 * Aleksei Barkalov
 * Viktor Berendyuga
 * Boris Goykhman
 * Andriy Kovalenko
 * Mikhail Ryzhak
 * Nikolai Smirnov
 * Dmitri Stratan
 * Vladimir Zhmudsky

Weightlifting

 * Nataliya Davydova
 * Denys Hotfrid
 * Yuliya Kalina
 * Moisei Kas’ianik – world champion
 * Olha Korobka
 * Igor Olshanetskyi – Ukrainian-born Israeli Olympic weightlifter
 * Ihor Razoronov
 * Igor Rybak – Olympic champion
 * Nataliya Skakun – Olympic champion
 * Timur Taymazov – Olympic champion
 * Oleksiy Torokhtiy – Olympic champion
 * Eduard Weitz – Ukrainian-born Israeli Olympic weightlifter

Wrestling

 * Valeriy Andriytsev
 * Yevhen Buslovych
 * Taras Danko
 * Vasyl Fedoryshyn
 * Grigoriy Gamarnik – world champion
 * Samuel Gerson – Olympic silver
 * Andriy Kalashnykov
 * Iryna Merleni – Olympic champion
 * Vyacheslav Oliynyk – Olympic champion
 * Yakiv Punkin
 * Davyd Saldadze
 * Andriy Stadnik
 * Elbrus Tedeyev – Olympic champion
 * Armen Vardanyan
 * Nik Zagranitchni – Israeli Olympic wrestler
 * Zaza Zazirov