At a glance: Ukraine's medals
- First medal ever won at a Summer Olympiad by independent Ukraine: bronze
in men's team gymnastics, (Ihor Korobchynsky, Hryhoriy Misiutin, Volodymyr
Shamenko, Rustam Sharipov, Oleksander Svitlychny, Yuriy Yermakov), July
22.
- First gold medal won by independent Ukraine at the Summer Games: Greco-Roman
wrestling (90 kg), Viacheslav Oleynyk, July 23.
- Other medals won (through July 25) at the XXVI Summer Olympics: bronze
in Greco-Roman wrestling (52 kg), bronze, Andriy Kalashnikov, July 23;
gold in gymnastics, individual all-around, Liliya Podkopayeva, July 25.
- Total medal count (as of July 25): four - two gold, two bronze.
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28, 1996, No. 30, Vol. LXIV
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