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Ukrainian Boxing Federation (Ukrainian Boxing Federation) is an all-Ukrainian public sport organization whose purpose is to develop boxing in Ukraine.

The Boxing Federation of Ukraine is a member of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) and the European Boxing Federation.

History
The history of modern boxing dates back to 1743 when the first official boxing gloves battle was held.

Since 1904 boxing was included to The program of Olympic Games, and since that time, boxing has become one of the leading Olympic sports for over 100 years

The first Ukrainian boxer who participant in the Olympic Games on 1956 in Melbourne was the citizen of Kiev Richard Karpov. The first prize-winner of the Olympic Games was Volodymyr Musalimov, who won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968.

The flowering of Ukrainian boxing in the Soviet era was in the 70's - 80's of the 20th century. Victor Miroshnichenko, Alexander Tkachenko, Alexander Yagubkin, Vitaliy Kachanovsky, Anatoliy Klimanov and Leonid Shaposhnikov became the champions of Europe at that time.

The Ukrainian boxers succeeded on the World Championships as well. Anthony Klimanov became the bronze prize-winner of the world championship in 1974. The gold of the World Championship was won by Victor Savchenko in 1978 and Alexander Yagubkin in 1982.

The first Ukrainian who won bronze medal of the Olympic Games in Montreal 1976 was Viktor Savchenko. Victor Miroshnichenko and Viktor Savchenko became the silver medalist of the Olympic Games in Moscow, 1980.

Since 1992, Ukrainian boxing has been presented on an international arena by a separate team It was the year, when Ukrainian Boxing Federation was organized.

During this time, the boxers of the National Ukrainian team won: 4 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze awards of Olympic Games. The winners and medalist of the Olympic Games were:


 * Gold


 * 1996 – Volodymyr Klitchko (Atlanta, USA)
 * 2008 – 2012 – Vasyl Lomachenko (Beijing (China), London(England))
 * 2012 – Oleksandr Usyk (London/England)


 * Silver


 * 1992 – Rostyslav Zaulichnyi (Barcelona, Spain)
 * 2000 – Andriy Kotelnyk (Sydney, Australia)
 * 2000 – Serhii Dotsenko (Sydney, Australia)
 * 2012 – Denys Berinchyk (London/England)


 * Bronze


 * 1996 – Oleg Kyrukhin (Atlanta, USA)
 * 2000 – Volodymyr Sydorenko (Sydney, Australia)
 * 2000 – Serhii Danylchinko (Sydney, Australia)
 * 2000 – Andriy Fedchuk (Sydney, Australia)
 * 2008 – Vyacheslav Glazkov (Beijing (China)
 * 2012 – Taras Selestuk (London/England)
 * 2012 – Oleksandr Gvozdyk (London/England)

The great impact on the development of Ukrainian box was made by Volodymyr Prodyvus – President of the Ukrainian Boxing Federation. He managed not only to restore and establish the work of the Federation after internal conflicts, but also create the team which goal is to on the development of Ukrainian boxing. Such policy of the Ukrainian Boxing Federation gave an instant result. The management of the FBU has established close professional ties with the European Boxing Federation and the International Boxing Association, and has directed all its efforts for the preparation the National Team of Ukraine for the Olympic Games in Beijing.

After 8 idle years in Olympic Games 2008 the National Ukrainian Team of again declared itself loudly as a strong and successful country. Vasyl Lomachenko was the gold medalist in Olympic Games, Beijing by taking revenge on Russians Albert Selimov whom he lost on the final of the World Championship in Chicago (USA). Bronze medalist of Olympic Games became heavyweight Vyacheslav Glazkov from Lugansk. After the Olympics in Beijing Vyacheslav began his professional career.

The significant year for the Boxing Federation of Ukraine was 2010, when Kharkiv hosted the first European Men's Cup in the history of the current Olympic boxing.

2011 was the year of great victories and incredible achievements for the Boxing Federation of Ukraine. It was the year when the National Team of Ukraine managed to win the first step of the pedestal of a general medal at the World Championship in Baku for the first time in the history of Ukrainian boxing. On this World championship in the capital of Azerbaijan, at the Heydar Aliyev Arena, boxers from the Ukrainian national team won 4 gold medals (Vasyl Lomachenko (weight category 60 kg), Taras Shelestyuk (weight category 69 kg), Eugene Khytrov (weight category 75 kg) and Oleksandr Usyk (weight category 91 kg)) and one silver medal was won by Denis Berinchik (weight category 64 kg).

However, the World Cup in Baku was remembered for Ukrainian fans with a loud scandal that caused by refereeing in the quarter-final match of Vasily Lomachenko against Brazilian Robson Conseisso. The referees gave the victory to Konceschaso and the representative of the Brazilian boxing school celebrated a victory with a score 20:19. For Vasyliy Lomachenko, that meant only one thing - he was not qualified for the Olympic Games 2012. Only eight quarter-finals of each weight categories could get qualification to the Olympic Games. However, the trues was on Ukrainian side. With the efforts of the President of the Ukrainian Boxing Federation Volodymyr Prodyvus, with the support of the NOC of Ukraine, and the protests submitted to AIBA. The result of bout was changed in favor of Vasyl Lomachenko it happened for the first time in the history of the Olympic boxing.

After extraordinary success in Baku, the national team of Ukraine went to the Olympic Games in London as one of the main favorites of the boxing tournament. The national team of Ukraine did their best to show an incredible result - to pocess the first team place in the men's boxing tournament of the Olympic Games. As the result of the competition our team get 5 medals:


 * Gold

60 kg – Vasyl LOMACHENKO

91 kg – Oleksandr YSUK


 * Silver

64 kg – Denys BERINCHYK


 * Bronze

69 kg – Taras SHELESTUK

81 kg – Oleksandr Gvozdyk

Immediately after the Olympic Games in Beijing, at the initiative of the President of the Boxing Federation of Ukraine, a professional boxing club "Ukrainian Otamans" was created. The main idea of the project was to create the team from prominent and experienced Ukrainian boxers such as: Vasyly Lomachenko, Denis Berinchik, Oleksandr Gvozdyk, Alexander Usyk in order to promod and develop Ukrainian box sharing experience with the young generation.

For the short period of time, the professional boxing club "Ukrainian Atamans", which took part in the World Series of Boxing competitions, get a lot of support from fans. Sooner, our team was supported in all part of Ukraine and became the real National team. The bright evidence of this was packed venius of all matches of the 1 WSB season. 2013 set a record number of people attending the match in the "Palace of Sports".

The evidence of the team’s popularity was the ratings of television broadcasts, which surpassed most of the indicators even football matches of the football Premier League.

The most significant result in the history of the team "Ukrainian Otamans" was achived in the first season of the World Series of Boxing when the team became the silver medalist of the competitions. In the decisive fight in Kazakhstan, our team lost to Astana Arlands only in an extra bout.

The fact is that in the history of the World Series of Boxing, the "Ukrainian Otamans" is the only team which had two Velas Barker Cup holders. They are Vasyl Lomachenko (2012) and Hasanboy Dusmatov (2016).

For the period of Volodymyr Prodyvus leadership, Ukraine hosted the highest-level competition several times. In 2010, the first ever Men's European Boxing Championship was held in Kharkiv. In 2013, the Junior World Boxing Championship was held in Kyiv, and in 2015 Lviv hosted Europe's strongest boxers in age group of juniors.

Another significant event for our state was the European Championship among men Kharkiv-17, initiated by Volodymyr Prodyvus, President of the UBF, and Dmytro Shentsev, the first vice-president of the UBF. The Continental Championship in Kharkiv was recognized by the European Boxing Confederation as the best organization for all years.

In addition, the results of the Ukrainian National Team competitions made great impression on everyone. According to the results, our team won the first team place.

The winners and medalists were :

Gold:

60 kg – Yuriy SHESTAK

75 kg – Oleksandr KHYZHNYAK

+91 kg – Viktor VYKHRYST

Silver:

56 kg – Mykola BUTSENKO

Bronze: 

52 kg – Dmytro ZAMOTAEV

69 kg – Evgen BARABANOV

Since 2001, women's boxing has actively been developing, which was included in the Olympic Games 2012. The representative of the Boxing Federation of the Volyn region Tatyana KOB was the only woman boxer from the Ukrainian national team at the Olympic Game 2016

In 2017, the Ukrainian Boxing Federation hold a regular reporting and election conference where Volodymyr Prodyvus was re-elected as president of the UBF for a new four-year Olympic cycle. The Executive Director of the UBF is Donatas Piskun. The press department of the UBF has been headed by Oleksandr Podvalenko for ten years, and the law department is headed by Ilya Skoropashkin, one of the best sports lawyers in Ukraine. The general secretary of the UBF is Ilya Gurovich.

Керівництво
President - Продивус Володимир Степанович

Head of the Supervisory Board of the FBU - Матіос Анатолій Васильович

First Vice-President - Шенцев Дмитро Олексійович

First Vice-President - Мангер Владислав Миколайович

First Vice-President - Павелець Олександр Ярославович

Vice-President - Манукян Володимир Антонович

Vice-President - Андрійчук Юрій Миколайович

Vice-President - Єлисеєв Дмитро Васильович

See

 * Українські отамани
 * Національна ліга професійного боксу України

Link

 * Офіційний сайт Федерації боксу України