Lviv region to host the Ukrainian Athletics Championships for the first time: competitors will fight for Olympic licences
The competition will take place from 28 to 30 June at the SKIF Stadium.
For the first time since independence, Lviv will host the Ukrainian Athletics Championships among adults and youth, as well as the Ukrainian All-Around Team Championships among adults and youth. The competitions will take place from 28 to 30 June at the SKIF Stadium of the Ivan Bobersky Lviv State University of Physical Culture.
About a thousand athletes from all regions of Ukraine will take part in the competition. Among them are the most titled athletes Yulia Levchenko, Iryna Gerashchenko, Anna Ryzhykova, Maryana Shostak, Oleg Doroshchuk, Andriy Protsenko, and Kateryna Tabashnyk.
The participants will compete in running and jumping events, relay races, throwing events and the decathlon. In addition to awards, they will also compete for licences to the Olympic Games in Paris.
The competition schedule is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hA0Nd8oYgXks5cqvvVyvRY0xMm-J5oLF/view?usp=sharing
Even before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the SKIF training and sports complex was reconstructed, including the athletics component, which lasted from 2018 to 2021. The estimated cost of the project is UAH 13 million 245 thousand. The work was financed jointly by the State Fund for Regional Development and the regional budget. The works were carried out using modern equipment PlanoMatic P703 – a fully automated new generation polyurethane screed paver designed for the construction of professional athletics tracks with a thickness of 6 to 50 mm, and the two-layer softened polyurethane system, consisting of rubber granulate and coloured rubber (EPDM), meets all the requirements of IAAF (International Athletics Federation) certification.
The project was implemented by the Capital Construction Department and the Department of Youth and Sports of the Lviv Regional State Administration. The project included the installation of sports surfaces for running tracks and sectors for jumping and throwing, as well as landscaping.
The stadium’s warm-up area was also overhauled, as this was a requirement for the Ukrainian championships and cups.
Today, the SKIF Stadium of the Ivan Bobersky Lviv State University of Physical Culture is one of the main training facilities for the national team athletes to prepare for competitions of various levels, including the World Championships and the Olympic Games.
“The SKIF Stadium is unique as it is located on the site of a sand quarry and is protected from the wind by greenery, which ensures minimal error in the results of athletes and improves their overall performance. Last year, we hosted the Ukrainian Athletics Team Championships for the first time, and now we are hosting the individual championships for the first time. All of this would not have been possible without the reconstruction of this facility and many others: the athletics arena of the MoD summer sports training centre, stadiums in Sambir, Busk, Yavoriv, Stryi, Mostyske.
“Wherever we have the capacity to develop athletics, we have gradually and methodically created modern magnet facilities that are already raising young champions. I definitely believe that after our victory, we will return to this concept of industry development,” says Roman Khimyak, head of the Youth and Sports Department of the Lviv Regional State Administration.