| Continental union | European Union of Gymnastics |
|---|---|
| National federation | Ukrainian Federation of Artistic Gymnastics |
| Olympic Games | |
| Appearances | 4 |
| World Championships | |
| Medals |  Bronze: 1999 |
| European Championships | |
| Medals |  Gold: 2020  Silver: 2000, 2004 Bronze: 1994, 1996, 1998 |
The Ukraine women's national artistic gymnastics team represents Ukraine in FIG international competitions.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, a handful of former Soviet gymnasts started competing for Ukraine. They participated as a team in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympic Games. In 1999, they won their only World Championships team medal, a bronze.
| Name | Birthdate and age | Hometown |
|---|---|---|
| Anastasia Aleksandrova | 26 June 2008 | Cherkasy |
| Daniela Batrona | 5 September 2006 | Rivne |
| Yelizaveta Hubareva | 16 June 2004 | Dnipro |
| Polina Diachenko | 25 July 2008 | Donetsk |
| Anastasia Zubkova | 8 August 2008 | Donetsk |
| Yulia Kasianenko | 19 November 2006 | Cherkasy |
| Marherita Kozlovska | 7 February 2004 | Khmelnytskyi |
| Marianna Kinyuk | 24 August 2008 | Ivano-Frankivsk |
| Ilona Krupa | 13 April 2007 | Lviv |
| Anna Lashchevska | 20 November 2007 | Ivano-Frankivsk |
| Diana Lobok | 9 November 2008 | Kyiv |
| Valeria Osipova | 13 August 2001 | Kyiv |
| Diana Savelieva | 5 June 2004 | Kropyvnytskyi |
| Diana Stadnik | 31 August 2007 | Cherkasy |
| Marta Chefranova | 1 February 2008 | Ivano-Frankivsk |
bronze medal This list includes all Ukrainian female artistic gymnasts who have won a medal at the Olympic Games or the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Medals won as part of the Soviet Union, the Unified Team at the Olympics, or the Commonwealth of Independent States are not included.
| Rank | Gymnast | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX | Olympic Total | World Total | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lilia Podkopayeva |  1996 1995 | 1995 | 1995 |  1996 1994 1995 | 1996 | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| 2 | Viktoria Karpenko | 1999 | 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Olga Roschupkina | 1999 | 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Irina Yarotska | 1999 | 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 5 | Iryna Krasnianska | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 6 | Nataliya Horodny | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Tatiana Lysenko | 1993 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Liubov Sheremeta | 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Inga Shkarupa | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Olga Teslenko | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Tatiana Yarosh | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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