Ukraine’s Best Archers Competed in Lviv
The best archers in Ukraine competed in Lviv at the Ministry of Defense’s summer sports training base from March 14-17.
Participants competed in the divisions of “Olympic Recurve” (the top 20/20 men and women by last season’s ranking) and “Compound Bow” (the top 8/8 respectively), representing 10 regions of Ukraine and Kyiv.
Athletes endured a unique archery marathon consisting of five qualifying rounds—10 scoring distances of 70 meters—where the winner and prize winners were determined by the sum of all distances.
Winners and Prizewinners
This format of competition was held for the first time in Ukraine, where the fight continued to the last shot of the final distance.
- women, Olympic recurve
- 1st place – Anastasia Pavlova (Kherson region)
- 2nd place – Veronika Marchenko (Lviv region)
- 3rd place – Olga Chebotarenko (Chernivtsi region)
- men, Olympic recurve
- 1st place – Artem Ovchinnikov (Sumy region)
- 2nd place – Oleksandr Boiko (Lviv region)
- 3rd place – Vladyslav Lisniak (Sumy region)
- women, compound bow
- 1st place – Kateryna Paleha (Lviv region)
- 2nd place – Kseniia Antonova (Lviv region)
- 3rd place – Oriana Vlasik (Rivne region)
- men, compound bow
- 1st place – Sviatoslav Karpenko (Lviv region)
- 2nd place – Ivan Dziadyk (Lviv region)
- 3rd place – Vadym Holovko (Kharkiv region)
“The competition hosted by Lviv Region was a major selection stage in the “Olympic Recurve” division for the Ukrainian national team. The national team will represent our country at the European Grand Prix in Antalya from April 22 to 27,” said Roman Khimyak, head of the Department of Sports, Youth and Tourism at the Lviv Regional Military Administration.