Ukraine men's national goalball team

Ukraine men's national goalball team

Ukraine team at the 2024 Paralympic Games
Sport	Goalball
League	IBSA
Division	Men
Region	IBSA Europe
Location	Ukraine
Colours	Black, yellow
Championships	Paralympic Games medals: : 0 : 1 : 0 World Championship medals: : 0 : 0 : 1

Ukraine men's national goalball team is the men's national team of Ukraine. Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a vision impairment. The team takes part in international competitions.

Paralympic Games

Main article: Goalball at the Summer Paralympics

2020 Tokyo

Main article: Goalball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

The team competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics, with competition from Wednesday 25 August to finals on Friday 3 September 2021, in the Makuhari Messe arena, Chiba, Tokyo, Japan.

The following is the Ukraine roster in the men's goalball tournament of the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[1]

No.	Player	Class	Date of birth (age)
1	Vasyl Oliinyk	B2	(1996-01-10)10 January 1996 (aged 25)
2	Anton Strelchyk	B3	(1992-03-04)4 March 1992 (aged 29)
3	Vitalii Haponenko	B2	(1994-12-17)17 December 1994 (aged 26)
4	Yevheniy Tsyhanenko	B3	(1990-12-10)10 December 1990 (aged 30)
5	Rodion Zhyhalin	B2	(1985-05-21)21 May 1985 (aged 36)
7	Oleksandr Toporkov	B2	(1991-05-31)31 May 1991 (aged 30)

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	4	2	0	2	18	13	+5	6	Quarter-finals
2	Ukraine	4	2	0	2	18	15	+3	6
3	Turkey	4	2	0	2	15	15	0	6
4	China	4	2	0	2	21	22	−1	6
5	Germany	4	2	0	2	16	23	−7	6

Source: TOCOG

Round-robin

26 August 2021 17:30	Ukraine	11–5	Germany	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Yoshinori Nii (Japan), Vaida Pokvytytė (Lithuania)
	Zhyhalin 7 Oliinyk 4	Report	Dennis 3 Rogge 2

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27 August 2021 17:30	China	7–3	Ukraine	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Romualdas Vaitiekus (Lithuania), Warrick Jackes (Australia)
	Chen Liangliang 3 Cai Changgui 2 Yang Mingyuan 2	Report	Zhyhalin 2 Oliinyk 1

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28 August 2021 10:30	Turkey	6–3	China	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Svitlana Moroz (Ukraine), Yoshinori Nii (Japan)
	Kara 3 Karakaya 3	Report	Yang Mingyuan 2 Cai Changgui 1

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30 August 2021 09:00	Ukraine	0–1	Turkey	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Warrick Jackes (Australia), Yoshinori Nii (Japan)
		Report	Karakaya 1

World Championships

Main article: Goalball World Championships

IBSA World Goalball Championships have been held every four years from 1978. Placing first or second in the tournament may earn a berth in the Paralympic Games goalball tournaments.

2022 Matosinhos

Main article: 2022 Goalball World Championships

The team competed in the 2022 World Championships from 7 to 16 December 2022, at the Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos, Portugal. There were sixteen men's and sixteen women's teams. They placed third in Pool D, winning four of seven games, and third in final standings behind Brazil and China.[2]

Regional championships

The team competes in the IBSA Europe goalball region.[3] Groups A and C are held one year, and Group B the following year. Strong teams move towards Group A.

See also

• Disabled sports
• Ukraine women's national goalball team
• Ukraine at the Paralympics

References

1. "Goalball – Team Ukraine". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
2. "Schedule and Results - GMT+0". IBSA Goalball World Championships 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
3. "IBSA members". International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA). Retrieved 26 May 2021.