Ukraine men's national goalball team
Sport | Goalball |
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League | IBSA |
Division | Men |
Region | IBSA Europe |
Location | Ukraine |
Colours | Black, yellow |
Championships | Paralympic Games medals:
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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
[edit]2020 Tokyo
[edit]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 | 10 January 1996 (aged 25) |
2 | Anton Strelchyk | B3 | 4 March 1992 (aged 29) |
3 | Vitalii Haponenko | B2 | 17 December 1994 (aged 26) |
4 | Yevheniy Tsyhanenko | B3 | 10 December 1990 (aged 30) |
5 | Rodion Zhyhalin | B2 | 21 May 1985 (aged 36) |
7 | Oleksandr Toporkov | B2 | 31 May 1991 (aged 30) |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 13 | +5 | 6 | Quarter-finals |
2 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 15 | +3 | 6 | |
3 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 6 | |
4 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 22 | −1 | 6 | |
5 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 23 | −7 | 6 |
- Round-robin
26 August 2021 17:30 | Ukraine ![]() | 11–5 | ![]() | Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Yoshinori Nii (Japan), Vaida Pokvytytė (Lithuania) |
Zhyhalin 7 Oliinyk 4 | Report | Dennis 3 Rogge 2 | ||
27 August 2021 17:30 | China ![]() | 7–3 | ![]() | Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Romualdas Vaitiekus (Lithuania), Warrick Jackes (Australia) |
Chen Liangliang 3 Cai Changgui 2 Yang Mingyuan 2 | Report | Zhyhalin 2 Oliinyk 1 | ||
28 August 2021 10:30 | Turkey ![]() | 6–3 | ![]() | Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Svitlana Moroz (Ukraine), Yoshinori Nii (Japan) |
Kara 3 Karakaya 3 | Report | Yang Mingyuan 2 Cai Changgui 1 | ||
30 August 2021 09:00 | Ukraine ![]() | 0–1 | ![]() | Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Warrick Jackes (Australia), Yoshinori Nii (Japan) |
Report | Karakaya 1 | |||
World Championships
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "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.
- ^ "Schedule and Results - GMT+0". IBSA Goalball World Championships 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
- ^ "IBSA members". International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA). Retrieved 26 May 2021.