Ukraine at the 2025 World Games

Ukraine at the
2025 World Games
Ukraine at the; 2025 World Games
IOC code	UKR
NOC	National Olympic Committee of Ukraine
in Chengdu, China; 7 August 2025 – 17 August 2025
Competitors	26 (9 men and 17 women) in 7 sports
Medals	Gold 7 Silver 7 Bronze 2 Total 16
World Games appearances (overview)
	1993; 1997; 2001; 2005; 2009; 2013; 2017; 2022; 2025;

Ukraine will compete at the 2025 World Games held in Chengdu, China from 7 to 17 August 2025.^[1]

Competitors

Ukrainians did not compete in disc golf, life saving. The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[2]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Acrobatic gymnastics	7	6	13
Canoe marathon	1	0	1
Dragon boat	6	6	12
Freediving	0	1	1
Karate	3	1	4
Muaythai	2	1	3
Trampoline gymnastics	3	1	4
Wakeboarding	1	1	2
Wushu	1	1	2
Total	24	18	42

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Yevfrosyniia Kryvytska Ivan Labunets	Acrobatic gymnastics	Mixed pairs	August 8
Gold	Ryzvan Talibov	Karate	Men's kumite +84 kg	August 9
Gold	Mixed	Dragon boat	Open 8-seater 500 metres	August 10
Gold	Mixed	Dragon boat	Mixed 10-seater 2000 metre	August 10
Gold	Sofiia Hrechko	Finswimming	Women's 200 metre surface	August 10
Gold	Bohdan Mochulskyi	Ju-jitsu	Men's fighting 62 kg	August 10
Gold	Dmytro Shelesko	Muaythai	Men's 57 kg	August 10
Silver	Anzhelika Terliuga	Karate	Women's kumite 55 kg	August 8
Silver	Ruzanna Vecheruk Anhelina Cherniavska	Acrobatic gymnastics	Women's pairs	August 8
Silver	Mixed	Dragon boat	Mixed 10-seater 500 metres	August 10
Silver	Sonya Sokolova	Wakeboarding	Women's Skim	August 10
Silver	Yurii Push Taras Yarush Stanislav Kukurudz Yuriy Savka	Acrobatic gymnastics	Men's groups	August 10
Silver	Oleksii Zakharov	Finswimming	Men's 400 m surface	August 10
Silver	Serhii Smishchenko Oleksandr Kuzmenko Davyd Yelisieiev Oleksii Zakharov	Finswimming	Men's 4 × 50 m surface relay	August 10
Bronze	Mixed	Dragon boat	Mixed 10-seater 200 metres	August 10
Bronze	Yelyzaveta Hrechykhina Sofiia Hrechko Viktoriia Uvarova Anastasiia Makarenko	Finswimming	Women's 4 × 100 m surface relay	August 10

Acrobatic gymnastics

Ukraine qualified athletes through the 2024 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships. The team was the biggest one at the Games, competed in all events and became the most successful one, as well. Push, Yarush, Kukurudz, and Savka won their second consecutive medal. It were third Games for Push, Yarush, and Kukurudz.

Athletes	Event	Qualification						Final
		Balance exercise		Dynamic exercise		Total		Final exercise
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Sofronii Davydenko Ivan Horlach	Men's pairs	26.660	6	24.580	6	51.240	6	Did not advance
Yurii Push Taras Yarush Stanislav Kukurudz Yuriy Savka	Men's groups	28.640	2	28.120	3	56.760	3 Q	28.860
Anhelina Cherniavska Ruzanna Vecheruk	Women's pairs	27.600	2	27.760	1	55.360	2 Q	28.270
Elina Kozachanska Karina Ostrovska Alina Puhach	Women's group	26.480	5	27.550	4	54.030	5 r	Did not advance
Yevfrosyniia Kryvytska Ivan Labunets	Mixed pairs	29.340	1	29.380	1	57.720	1 Q	29.110

Aerobic gymnastics

Ukraine qualified athlete at the 2024 Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships.

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
	Pairs

Canoe marathon

Canoe marathon

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Maksym Redko	Men's short distance	15:27.68	8	Did not advance
Maksym Redko	Men's long distance	—		1:42:00.69	14

Cheerleading

Ukraine two qualifiers athlete.

Dancesport

Standard

Athletes	Event	First round							Semi-finals							Finals
Athletes	Event	Waltz	Tango	Viennese Waltz	Slow Foxtrot	Quickstep	Total points	Rank	Waltz	Tango	Viennese Waltz	Slow Foxtrot	Quickstep	Total points	Rank	Waltz	Tango	Viennese Waltz	Slow Foxtrot	Quickstep	Total points	Rank
Anna Lubianetska Emanuele Cannistraro	Standard	34.00	34.17	34.08	34.33	33.92	170.50	13 Q	34.00	34.00	33.67	33.83	33.58	169.08	14	Did not advance
Veronika Myshko Earle Williamson	Standard	32.75	32.58	32.55	32.58	32.92	163.39	21	Did not advance

Dragon boat

Ukraine have qualified a berth in the 2025 World Games through its performance in the mixed 10-seater races at the 2024 ICF Dragon Boat World Championships. Ukraine had participated in both previous events (2005 and 2009). This time, the Ukrainian team won its first medals in the sport and became second most successful team at the Games behind Indonesia.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Olesia Matviienko Yurii Bardashevskyi Serhii Semeniuk Oleksandr Kalmus Danylo Kukharuk Mykola Verkhovetskyi Olha Buraho Viktor Svyrydiuk Kateryna Petrenko Olena Skvortsova	Open 8-seater 200 metres	1:10.78	4 q SF	49.20	2 Q	47.39	5
	Open 8-seater 500 metres	2:07.76	2 Q F	Bye		2:05.53
	Open 8-seater 2000 metres	—				9:28.25	4
Olesia Matviienko Yurii Bardashevskyi Serhii Semeniuk Oleksandr Kalmus Danylo Kukharuk Mykola Verkhovetskyi Olha Buraho Viktor Svyrydiuk Kateryna Petrenko Olena Skvortsova Anastasiia Mazurenko Snizhana Zhyhailo	Mixed 10-seater 200 metres	49.98	2 Q F	Bye		48.85
	Mixed 10-seater 500 metres	2:08.32	2 Q F	Bye		2:07.02
	Mixed 10-seater 2000 metres	—				9:19.87

Finswimming

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Artur Artamonov	Men's 50 m bi-fins
Artur Artamonov	Men's 100 m bi-fins
Oleksii Zakharov	Men's 200 m surface
Viktoriia Uvarova	Women's 50 m apnoea
Viktoriia Uvarova	Women's 100 m surface
Sofiya Lamakh	Women's 100 m bi-fins
Anastasiia Makarenko	Women's 100 m surface

Freediving

Ukraine qualified one athlete.

Athlete	Event	Meters	Rank
Kateryna Sadurska	Women's Dynamic no Fins	DSQ
Kateryna Sadurska	Women's Dynamic with Fins

Ju-jitsu

Bohdan Mochulskyi won his third gold medal in his third appearance at the Games.

Men

Athlete	Event	Group stage			Semifinals	Final/Bronze medal bout
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Bohdan Mochulskyi	62 kg	al-Gharrawi (IRQ) W 50–0 DSQ	Kanatbek (KAZ) W 16–7	1 Q	Viviescas (COL) W 13–11	van der Veer (NED) W 17–12
Kostiantyn Shutko	69 kg ne-waza	Batyrbekov (KAZ)	Bayili (BEL)

Karate

Zaplitnyi, Chobotar, and Terliuga qualified as medallists of the 2023 World Karate Championships, while Talibov qualified through the ranking. Terliuga competed at her second Games and won her second medal. Talibov competed at his second Games (in 2022, he finished 4th).

In the semifinal, China's Wei was declared winner with score 9–1. However, the Ukrainian team filed a protest, claiming that Wei had violated the line at some point during the bout.^[3] This protest was upheld, and Terliuga subsequently won the semifinal.

Men

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Semifinals	Final/Bronze medal bout
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Andrii Zaplitnyi	75 kg	Sakiyama (JPN) L 0–1	Berthon (FRA) W 1–0	Xu (CHN) L 0–2	4	Did not advance
Valerii Chobotar	84 kg	Shimada (JPN) L 0–3	Gasparian (AIN) W 4–0	Duan (CHN) L 6–12	3	Did not advance
Ryzvan Talibov	+84 kg	Timmermans (ARU) W 6–2	Filali (FRA) W 5–3	Kvesić (CRO) W 3–0	1 Q	Abazari (IRI) W 4–0	Kvesić (CRO) W 4–0

Women

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Semifinals	Final/Bronze medal bout
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Anzhelika Terliuga	55 kg	Yakan (TUR) W 0–0 KI	Toro (CHI) L 0–5	No other competitor	2 Q	Wei (CHN) W 4–3	Bitsch (GER) L 1–3

Kickboxing

Ukraine qualified athlete at the 2024 European Championships.

K1 Style

Men

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semi-finals	Final/Bronze medal bout
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Hlib Mazur	52 kg
Roman Shcherbatiuk	+91 kg

Women

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semi-finals	Final/Bronze medal bout
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Daryna Ivanova	52 kg
Alina Martyniuk	60 kg

Muaythai

Men

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final/Bronze medal bout
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Dmytro Shelesko	57 kg	Mosawi (AFG) W 29–28	Nguyễn Trần (VIE) W 29–28	Gordon (ISR)
Oleksandr Yefimenko	71 kg	Zahidi (MAR) W 29–28	Franzosi (ITA) L RSCB	Spéth (HUN)

Women

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semi-finals	Final/Bronze medal bout
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Anastasiia Mykhailenko	48 kg	Abubakar (PHI) L 27–30	Did not advance

Orienteering

Ukraine competed in orienteering.

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Illia Otreshko	Sprint	17:35	23
Illia Otreshko	Middle distance	1:05:45	22

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Olena Babych	Sprint	20:49	34
Olena Babych	Middle distance	55:14	16

Powerlifting

Classic

Athlete	Event	Exercises			Total weight	Total points	Rank
Athlete	Event	Squat	Bench press	Deadlift	Total weight	Total points	Rank
	Men's middleweight
Anatolii Novopysmennyi	Men's heavyweight

Equipped

Athlete	Event	Exercises			Total weight	Total points	Rank
Athlete	Event	Squat	Bench press	Deadlift	Total weight	Total points	Rank
Musiienko Kostiantyn	Men's heavyweight
Volodymyr Rysiev	Men's heavyweight
[[	Men's middleweight
Tetianna Bila	Women's lightweight
Anastasiia Derevianko	Women's lightweight

Squash

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semi-finals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Dmytro Shcherbakov	Men's singles	van Niekerk (RSA) L 0–3	Kandra (GER) L 0–3	Haizhen (CHN)
Alina Bushma	Women's singles	Vidović (CRO) L 2–3	Zhang (CHN) W 3–0	Čepová (CZE) W 3–0	Barbeau (FRA)

Trampoline gymnastics

Ukraine qualified athletes at the 2023 Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships.

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Davyd Sandomyrskyi Andrii Sokolov	Men's synchronised	23.310	8	Did not advance
Timofii Chervonnyi	Men's tumbling	40.200	8	Did not advance
Diana Denysova	Women's tumbling	37.500	7	Did not advance

Wakeboarding

Athletes	Event	Heats		Last chance qualifiers		Semi-final		Final
Athletes	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Chubaka Chuba	Men's skim	30.00	3 Q	Bye		25.00	5	Did not advance
Sonya Sokolova	Women's skim	66.67	2 Q	Bye		39.00	3 Q	50.00

Wushu

Ukraine qualified one athlete.

Taolu

Athlete	Event	First routine		Second routine		Final score
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Oryna Ivanova	Women's taijiquan and taijijian combined	9.690	4	8.883	9	18.573	9

References

^ "Qualifications for TWG 2025, Chengdu (CHN)". theworldgames. 28 April 2024. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
^ "TWG Sports". theworldgames. 28 April 2024. Archived from the original on 2024-02-23. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
^ Тренер Терлюги розповів, як вдалося задовольнити протест щодо півфіналу Всесвітніх ігор – допомогли друзі з Канади, football24.ua, 8 August 2025 (in Ukrainian).

External links

Results

[1] "Qualifications for TWG 2025, Chengdu (CHN)". theworldgames. 28 April 2024. Retrieved 2024-04-28.

[2] "TWG Sports". theworldgames. 28 April 2024. Archived from the original on 2024-02-23. Retrieved 2024-04-28.

[3] Тренер Терлюги розповів, як вдалося задовольнити протест щодо півфіналу Всесвітніх ігор – допомогли друзі з Канади, football24.ua, 8 August 2025 (in Ukrainian).

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Ukraine at the 2025 World Games

IOC code	UKR
NOC	National Olympic Committee of Ukraine
in Chengdu, China 7 August 2025 (2025-08-07) – 17 August 2025 (2025-08-17)
Competitors	26 (9 men and 17 women) in 7 sports
Medals	Gold 7 Silver 7 Bronze 2 Total 16
World Games appearances (overview)
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