Ukrainian Athletics Championship was held February 9th-11th , 2018, in the athletics complex of Sumy State University.
According to the results of 2017, the best athletes, coaches and judges were awarded during the championship opening ceremony. The best track athlete of 2017 was Serhii Smelyk, an alumnus of Sumy State University.
In addition, Yevhen Hutsol (postgraduate in major “Sport”) – distance 800 m and relay race 4x400 m (in a team); Vladyslav Malykhin (major “Sport”) – pole- vaulting; Yevheniia Mucharova (the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technologies) – relay race 4x400 m among women (youth); Anastasiia Tokar (the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technologies), Anastasiia Shyshniak (the Academic and Research Institute of Law) – relay race 4x400 m among women (adults); Mariia Mykolenko (the Faculty of Foreign Philology and Social Communications) and Vitalii Butrym (an alumnus) – a distance of 400 m; Yaroslav Demchenko (the Machine Building College) – in a relay race 4х400 m (youth) and in a distance of 400 m (youth) were awarded with the golden medals.
Ihor Musiienko (postgraduate student of the Oleg Balatskyi Academic and Research Institute of Finance, Economics and Management) – a shotput; Anastasiia Bryzghina (major “Sport”) – distance 400 m; Oleksandr Pohorilko (major “Sport”), Vladyslav Nikitenko (major “Sport”), Yurii Serdiuk (the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technologies) – relay race 4х400 m (youth); Fedir Savostian (the Academic and Research Institute of Business Technologies “Ukrainian Academy of Banking”), Mykhailo Tiutiunnikov (the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technologies), Oleksii Pozdniakov (major “Sport”), Yaroslav Demchenko (the Machine Building College), Anton Slizchenko (the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technologies) – in a relay race 4x400 m (adults) became silver medalists.
Bronze medals were awarded to Anton Slizchenko (the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technologies) for a distance of 400 m; Oleksii Pozdniakov (major “Sport”) in a relay race 4x400 m (adults); Volodymyr Suprun (an alumnus) for a distance of 60 m; Serhii Smelyk (an alumnus) for a distance of 60 m; Anna Plotitsyna (an alumnus) for a distance of 60-meter in hurdles.
Following the Ukrainian Championship, our students have won the right to take part in the World Championship, which is going to be held March 1st-4th , 2018, in Birmingham (UK).
Yevhen Hutsol, Oleksii Pozdniakov and Vitalii Butrym have joined the National Ukrainian Team.