Viktor Hennadiyovych Ruban (; born 24 May 1981 in

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

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) is an Olympic gold medal winning former world number one Ukrainian

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern ...

.Ukraine's Ruban wins men's individual archery
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2004 Summer Olympics

Ruban competed at the

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in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32; he also won his second match, advancing to the round of 16. In the third match, he lost to Laurence Godfrey of Great Britain. Ruban placed 13th overall. Ruban was also a member of the

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Ukrainian men's archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the

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in Beijing Ruban finished his ranking round with a total of 678 points, one point behind

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and equal with

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. This gave him the third seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Maged Youssef in the first round, beating the

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ian 111-96. In the second round Ruban was too strong for

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(114-108) in the third round he advanced to the quarter-finals. There he had no problem beating

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115-106. In the semi-final he and his opponent

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both came to 112 points and an extra round was needed. Here Ruban scored 20 points and Badënov 18, which brought Ruban into the final. In the final he claimed the gold by beating Park Kyung-Mo by 113-112. 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 Oleksandr Serdyuk he also took part in the team event. With the highest score from the ranking round combined with the 676 of Serdyuk and the 658 of Ivashko Ukraine were in second position after the ranking round, which gave them a straight seed into the quarter-finals. With 214-211 they defeated the

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team, but in the semi-final they were eliminated by Italy 223-221. In the challenge for the bronze medal China was too strong with 222-219.

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