

Independently, Ukraine has won a total of 120 medals at the Summer Games and 8 at the Winter Games, with gymnastics at summer and biathlon at winter as the nation's top medal-producing sports. Tatiana Gutsu became the best athlete of the Unified Team in 1992 from independent Ukraine. Previously, athletes of modern Ukraine mostly competed as part of the Russian Empire (1900–1912) and the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1988, and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian athletes were part of the Unified Team in 1992.

The first athlete who won the gold medal for the yellow-blues was Oksana Baiul. "Of course, people noticed that and the person in charge of the announcement apologised and there was an announcement of apology at the same time, so this was a purely operational mistake.Ukraine first participated at the Olympic Games as an independent nation in 1994, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games since then. The French language have said team Ukraine however, it said the ROC instead. Takaya did not immediately clarify that the mistake was to confuse the Ukrainians as belonging to the Russian team.Īsked for more detail, Takaya said: "French, English and Japanese, these three languages are used. "It was purely an operational mistake, so we would like to apologise for that." "During the victory ceremony yesterday for the artistic swimming duet, there was mistakenly announced a different country and region's name for the team Ukraine who claimed the bronze medal. Svetlana Romashina today became the most successful athlete in the history of #artisticswimming, by winning her sixth gold medal!Ĭongratulations 👏😭 /wK19n9D9nO- FINA August 4, 2021 👑 6x🥇 THE BEST EVER IN OLYMPIC HISTORY! #Tokyo2020
