39 Notable alumni of
Lviv State University of Physical Culture
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The Lviv State University of Physical Culture is 1519th in the world, 522nd in Europe, and 22nd in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 39 notable alumni from the Lviv State University of Physical Culture sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Oleksandr Usyk
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- professional boxer
- Biography
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Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held the unified world heavyweight championship since 2021, and the Ring magazine title since 2022. He held the undisputed championship in two weight classes—cruiserweight and heavyweight—and is the third male boxer in history (after Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue) to become a two-weight undisputed champion in the "four-belt era".
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Anna Muzychuk
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- chess player
- Biography
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Anna Olehivna Muzychuk is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600. She has been ranked as high as No. 197 in the world, and No. 2 among women. Muzychuk is a three-time world champion in fast chess, having won the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship once in 2014 and the Women's World Blitz Chess Championship twice in 2014 and 2016. In classical chess, she was the 2017 Women's World Championship runner-up.
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Vasyl Ivanchuk
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- mind gamerdraughts playerchess player
- Biography
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Vasyl Mykhailovych Ivanchuk, is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1988. A leading chess player since 1988, Ivanchuk has been ranked at No. 2 on the FIDE world rankings three times (July 1991, July 1992, October 2007).
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Andriy Husin
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- association football playerassociation football manager
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Andriy Leonidovych Husin was a Ukrainian professional football player and coach. He played in the Ukraine national team, and was one of Ukraine's most capped players. He was a member of their squad at the 2006 World Cup.
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Myron Markevych
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- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Myron Bohdanovych Markevych is a Ukrainian football manager and former player who manages Karpaty Lviv.
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Andriy Bal
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Andriy Mykhaylovych Bal was a Soviet and Ukrainian professional footballer who played as a midfielder and football manager.
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Andreas Kotelnik
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- boxer
- Biography
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Andriy Mykolayovich Kotelnyk, best known by the Germanicised name Andreas Kotelnik, is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed between 2000 and 2014, and held the WBA super-lightweight title from 2008 to 2009. As an amateur boxer, he won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2000 Olympics.
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Alexander Beliavsky
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- chess playercoach
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Alexander Genrikhovich Beliavsky is a Soviet, Ukrainian and Slovenian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1975. He is also a chess coach and in 2004 was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.
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Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
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- long jumperathletics competitor
- Biography
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Igor Aramovich Ter-Ovanesyan is a Soviet and Ukrainian former long jumper and coach, of Armenian descent. Competing for the Soviet Union, he was a five-time European and two-time Olympic medalist in this event. In 1985, he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour.
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Vadym Tyshchenko
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- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Vadym Mykolayovych Tyshchenko or Vadim Nikolayevich Tishchenko was a Soviet and Ukrainian association football player and Ukrainian coach.
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Yana Shemyakina
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- fencer
- Biography
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Yana Volodymyrivna Shemyakina is a Ukrainian right-handed épée fencer, three-time Olympian, and 2012 individual Olympic champion.
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Dmytro Boiko
- Occupations
- fencer
- Biography
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Dmytro Boiko is a Ukrainian sabre fencer.
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Viktor Sidyak
- Occupations
- fencer
- Biography
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Viktor Aleksandrovich Sidyak is a Russian former left-handed sabre fencer, a pupil of Mark Rakita and David Tyshler. He was known for his aggressive style and the "one-and-a-half tempo attack".
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Stepan Yurchishyn
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- association football playerassociation football manager
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Stepan Fedorovych Yurchyshyn is a Ukrainian retired football player. The first team that he coached was FC Karpaty Lviv in 1990, 1992, and then from 1999 to 2006. In 2007, he became a coach of FC Lviv from which he resigned in late September 2008 after the club's poor start in the Ukrainian Premier League.
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Artur Ayvazyan
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- sport shooter
- Biography
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Artur Surenovych Ayvazyan is an Olympic shooter for Ukraine and Russia who won a gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi
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- association football player
- Biography
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Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi is a Ukrainian football coach and a former player who coaches Ahrobiznes Volochysk. He is on the fourth place the all-time appearance leader in the Vyscha Liha.
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Vasyl Kardash
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- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Vasyl Yaroslavovych Kardash is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a defender.
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Yaroslav Kendzior
- Occupations
- politician
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Yaroslav-Petro Mykhailovych Kendzior is a Ukrainian journalist, human rights activist, and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1990 to 1998 and from 1999 to 2012. He was previously part of the editorial staff of The Ukrainian Herald, alongside Viacheslav Chornovil and Mykhailo Kosiv.
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Oleksandr Chernetskyi
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- amateur wrestler
- Biography
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Oleksandr Stepanovych Chernetskyi is an amateur Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler, who wrestled for the men's super heavyweight category.
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Serhiy Zaytsev
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- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Serhiy Ilarionovych Zaytsev is a Ukrainian football manager and former player who played as a defender.
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Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi
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- association football playerassociation football manager
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Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi was a Ukrainian football manager.
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Ihor Kulchytskyi
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- association football playerassociation football manager
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Ihor Yevstakhiyovych Kulchytskyi is a retired Soviet football player, Master of Sports of the USSR.
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Tetiana Hamera-Shmyrko
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- marathon runnerathletics competitor
- Biography
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Tetyana Hamera is a Ukrainian long-distance runner. She represented her country at the 2012 Olympics in London, finishing fifth in the women's marathon. This result was among her many performances from 2011 to 2015 later annulled due to her conviction for doping.
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Yuriy Mozharovsky
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- association football managerassociation football playerassociation football referee
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Yuriy Andriyovych Mozharovskyi is a Ukrainian professional football referee. He has been a full international for FIFA since 2011.
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Vitaliy Shumbarets
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- Nordic combined skierski jumper
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Vitaliy Shumbarets is a Ukrainian ski jumper who has competed since 2003. He finished 45th in the individual normal hill event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Martyn Kravtsiv
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Martyn Kravtsiv is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013.
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Andriy Mandziy
- Occupations
- luger
- Biography
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Andriy Vasylyovych Mandziy is a Ukrainian luger. He competed at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.
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Ludmilla Arzhannikova
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- archer
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Lyudmila Leonidova Arzhannikova is an Olympic archer. She competed for the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics IV individuel and IV with team, for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and for the Netherlands at the 1996 Summer Olympics 1/8 finale.
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Vitali Golod
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- chess player
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Vitali Matveyevich Golod is a Soviet-born Israeli chess player. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 1996.
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Anfisa Pochkalova
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- fencer
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Anfisa Serhiyivna Pochkalova is a Ukrainian épée fencer. She is the 2009 world individual bronze medalist.
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Vasyl Stankovych
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- fencer
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Vasyl Stankovych is a retired Ukrainian fencer. He competed at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won team silver medals in the foil in 1968 and 1972; in 1976 he placed fourth both individually and with the Soviet team. At the world championships Stankovych won five gold medals in the foil between 1969 and 1974.
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Volodymyr Hrabinskyi
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- chess player
- Biography
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Vladimir Grabinsky is a Ukrainian chess International Master and coach of the Ukrainian youth team. Enrolled in the Lviv Institute of Physical Culture in 1990 and graduated in 1994. Twelve of his students became Grandmasters at an early age; these are: Andrei Volokitin, Yuriy Kryvoruchko, Martyn Kravtsiv, Yaroslav Zherebukh, Yuri Vovk, Andrey Vovk, Mikhailo Oleksienko, Nataliya Buksa, Vita Kryvoruchko, Myroslava Hrabinska and Kateryna Matseyko.
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Andriy Shandor
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- association football managerassociation football playerassociation football referee
- Biography
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Andriy Arpadovych Shandor is a former Ukrainian professional football referee. He has been a full international for FIFA since 2002.
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Volodymyr Bezubyak
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Volodymyr Bezubyak is a former Ukrainian and Soviet football coach, as well as former professional midfielder, from Lviv.
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Dmitri Stratan
- Occupations
- water polo player
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Dmitri Ivanovich Stratan is a Soviet and Russian water polo forward. He competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics for the Ukrainian team that finished in 12th place. At the next two Olympics he played for Russia and won a silver and bronze medal, respectively. He was also part of the Russian teams that won bronze medals at the 1997 European and 2001 world championships.
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Oksana Herhel
- Occupations
- amateur wrestler
- Biography
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Oksana Kukhta is a Ukrainian freestyle wrestler of Spartak sports club.
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Oleh Shturbabin
- Occupations
- fencer
- Biography
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Oleh Shturbabin is a Ukrainian sabre fencer, bronze medallist in the 2005 World Fencing Championships and silver team medallist in the 2006 World Fencing Championships.
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Olena Stetskiv
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- luger
- Biography
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Olena Andriivna Stetskiv is a Ukrainian luger. She participated at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.
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Natalya Voytsekh
- Occupations
- badminton player
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Natalya Aleksandrivna Voytsekh is a Ukrainian badminton player. She competed at the 2015 Baku European Games.
