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.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, July 28, 1996, No. 30, Vol. LXIV

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