Ukraine first participated at the Olympic Games as an independent nation in 1994, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games since then. The first athlete who won the gold medal for the yellow-blues was Oksana Baiul. However, for the first time the Ukrainian national flag and the Ukrainian state anthem sounded in 1992 when Oleg Kutscherenko from Luhansk Oblast won his gold medal in Barcelona as part of the so-called "Unified Team" of ex-Soviet republics.
Previously, athletes of modern Ukraine mostly competed as part of the Russian Empire (1900–1912) and the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1988, and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian athletes were part of the Unified Team in 1992. Tatiana Gutsu became the best athlete of the Unified Team in 1992 from independent Ukraine.
Independently, Ukraine has won a total of 160 medals (151 medals at the Summer Games and 9 at the Winter Games) since it regained independence, with 41 of them gold, the second most amongst all post-Soviet states behind Russia. Gymnastics at summer and biathlon at winter are the nation's top medal-producing sports.
The National Olympic Committee of Ukraine was created in 1990 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1993.
Multiple medal winners
editList of Soviet medalists
editList of Soviet medalists who represented Soviet clubs out of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and recognized by the Ukrainian NOC.
- ^ including Polina Astakhova
- ^ including Ivan Deriuhin
- ^ including Leonid Bartenev
- ^ including Polina Astakhova
- ^ including Heorhiy Zhylin and Ihor Yemchuk
- ^ including Yevhen Cherepovsky
- ^ including Leonid Bartenev
- ^ including Albert Valtin
- ^ including Leonid Kolumbet
- ^ including Yury Vengerovsky, Eduard Sibiryakov, and Yuriy Poyarkov
- ^ including Andrei Khimich
- ^ including Nikolai Chuzhikov
- ^ including Lyudmila Gureyeva and Valentina Mishak
- ^ including Mykola Bahley
- ^ including Tatyana Devyatova
- ^ including Yuri Poyarkov, Volodymyr Byelyayev, Yevgeni Lapinsky, Vladimir Ivanov, Boris Tereshchuk, Viktor Mikhalchuk, and Vasilius Matushevas
- ^ including Viktor Sidyak
- ^ including Grigory Kriss and Iosif Vitebsky
- ^ including Vasili Stankovich and Viktor Putyatin
- ^ including Pavel Lednev and Boris Onishchenko
- ^ including Aleksei Barkalov
- ^ including Anatoli Polivoda
- ^ including Yuriy Hromak and Vladimir Nemshilov
- ^ including Valentyn Kravchuk and Volodymyr Sterlik
- ^ including Yuri Filatov, Yuri Stetsenko, and Volodymyr Morozov
- ^ including Aleksei Barkalov
- ^ including Sergei Kovalenko and Anatoli Polivoda
- ^ including Yekaterina Kuryshko
- ^ including Pavel Lednev and Boris Onischenko
- ^ including Valeriy Borzov
- ^ including Vasyl Stankovych and Victor Putyatin
- ^ including Oleh Blokhin, Yuri Eliseev, Viktor Kolotov, Vladimir Onishchenko, Yevhen Rudakov, Vyacheslav Semyonov, and Anatoli Kuksov
- ^ including Grigori Kriss and Sergei Paramonov
- ^ including Yuriy Poyarkov and Yevhen Lapinsky
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