Personal information | |
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Nationality | Ukrainian |
Born | Kremenchuk, Ukraine | 27 June 1999
Sport | |
Sport | Paralympic athletics |
Disability class | F20 |
Event(s) | shot put |
Club | Avanhard Complex Youth Sports School |
Coached by | Yury Shchypets |
Medal record |
Oleksandr Yarovyi (born 27 June 1999) is a Ukrainian Paralympic athlete who specializes in shot put. He represented Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [1]
Yarovyi represented Ukraine in the shot put F20 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and won a silver medal. [2]
Ukraine competed in the Summer Olympic Games as an independent nation for the first time at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Previously, Ukrainian athletes competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics. 231 competitors, 146 men and 85 women, took part in 148 events in 21 sports.
The men's shot put event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There were 36 competitors from 26 nations, with twelve athletes reaching the final. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event took place on July 26, 1996. The event was won by Randy Barnes of the United States, the nation's second consecutive and 16th overall victory in the men's shot put. Barnes was the 11th man to win multiple medals in the event, and the first to do so in nonconsecutive Games. His teammate John Godina took silver, while Oleksandr Bagach earned Ukraine's first medal in the event with a bronze.
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