Heorhiy Ivanytskyy (; born 6 May 1992 in

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) is a Ukrainian

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. He is champion and bronze medalist of the

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. He won silver medal at the 2021 European Championships in team event and multiple medals at the World Indoor Archery Championships.

Career

Ivanytskyy started archery in 2005 and made his international debut in 2008. After several international successes in junior competitions, including two medals at the World Indoor Archery Championships, he became member of the senior national team. The first international success for Ivanytskyy at the senior level came in 2014 when he together with

Markiyan Ivashko Markiyan Volodymyrovych Ivashko ( Ukrainian: Маркіян Володимирович Івашко, born 18 May 1979) is a Ukrainian archer. 2008 Summer Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ivashko finished his r ...

and Olympic champion

Viktor Ruban Viktor Hennadiyovych Ruban (; born 24 May 1981 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is an Archery at the Summer Olympics, Olympic gold medal winning former World Archery Rankings#Number one ranked archers, world ...

won the men's team competition at the 2014 World Indoor Championships in

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. Two years later, in

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, he became World Champion in individual event. At the 2018 World Indoor Championships, he was third in the men's team event (together with

Oleksii Hunbin Oleksii Ihorovych Hunbin (; born 8 November 1992 in Sumy, Ukraine) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian Target archery, archer. He represented Ukraine at the Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Summer Olympics in men's individual and mixed team competi ...

and Viktor Ruban). Ivanytskyy successfully competed at the

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. On 17 June he won a bronze medal together with Lidiia Sichenikova in the mixed team event. They finished fourth in qualification, won against Finnish double in the first round of the elimination rounds and Russian team in the quarterfinals, lost to future champions

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and

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from Italy, and finally won against Slovenian

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and Rok Bizjak in the bronze medal final. On 18 June Ivanytskyy competed together with Ivashko and Ruban in the men's team event. After finishing fourth in qualifications, they won in the elimination rounds against Slovenia, Italy and the Netherlands, thus reaching the final. In the final, the Ukrainian team won 5-4 against the Spanish trio (

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, and Antonio Fernández) and became the European Games champions. Ivanytskyy continued to compete in the individual event after the team competitions finished. He finished 4th in qualification and won in the eliminations rounds against

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from Serbia,

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from the Netherlands,

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from Luxembourg, but he lost in the quarterfinals to twelfth-ranked

from Spain. At the 2015 World Championships in

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, Ivanytskyy reached the eliminations rounds in the individual event, but he lost in the first round (with 104 competitors) to Andrei Danila from Romania. In the men's team event, Ivanytskyy together with Ivashko and Ruban reached round of 16 where they lost to Chinese Taipei (

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, Wang Hou-chieh, and

Yu Guan-lin Yu Guan-lin ( zh, t=余冠燐, p=Yú Guānlín; born 29 November 1993) is a Taiwanese competitive archery, archer. He won a bronze medal in the men's team recurve at the 2015 Asian Archery Championships, 2015 Asian Championships, and also compet ...

). Ivanytskyy participated in the

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, where he reached Round of 16 in individual competition and round of 16 in men's team competition (together with Oleksii Hunbin and Mykhailo Kostash). That year he also participated in the

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where he was just 17th in individual competition, 9th in the mixed team event and 17th in the men's team event. During the

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, Ivanytskyy together with Oleksii Hunbin and Sergii Makarevych won silver medals in team competition in

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where the 4th stage of the World Cup was held. They lost to Turkey (

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, and

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). This was the only medal for Ukraine in that season. The 2021 European Archery Championships, which was held in

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, brought Ivanytskyy his first European Championships medal. Together with Oleksii Hunbin and Ivan Kozhokar, he won silver medal in team competition. Ukraine lost in the final to the Netherlands' team composed of

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, and

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. In individual competition he was 33rd. At the Final Olympic Qualification Tournament, held in

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, Ivanytskyy reached quarterfinals. Since he lost to his team fellow

in the quarterfinal, the national team management decided to pick Hunbin as Ukrainian representative at the 2020 Summer Olympics. At that tournament Ukraine men's team also ranked 4th, but it wasn't enough to qualify a team for Tokyo. After failing to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics, Ivanytskyy competed at the 2021 World Championships in Yankton,

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, where he reached round of 48 in the individual competition and round of 16 in the team competition (together with Hunbin and Kozhokar).

Personal life

He graduated from

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. His hobby is

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. He served in the

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during the

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.Ivanytskyy's personal photo on Instagram
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References

External links

Heorhiy Ivanytskyy's profile at the World Archery

Heorhiy Ivanytskyy in Instagram
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