39 Notable Alumni of Lviv State University of Physical Culture

Oleksandr Usyk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1987-.. (age 39)
Occupations: professional boxerboxer
Biography: Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held the unified heavyweight championship since 2025, and the Ring magazine title since 2022. He held the undisputed championship in two weight classes—cruiserweight and heavyweight—and is the first male boxer to become a three-time undisputed champion in the "four-belt era".

Anna Muzychuk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1990-.. (age 36)
Occupations: chess player
Biography: 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 2016 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.

Vasyl Ivanchuk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1969-.. (age 57)
Occupations: chess playermind gamerdraughts player
Biography: 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).

Andriy Husin

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1972-2014 (aged 42)
Occupations: association football playerassociation football coach
Biography: 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.

Myron Markevych

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1951-.. (age 75)
Occupations: association football playerassociation football coach
Biography: Myron Bohdanovych Markevych is a Ukrainian football manager and former player. He last managed Karpaty Lviv.

Andriy Bal

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1958-2014 (aged 56)
Occupations: association football playerassociation football coach
Biography: Andriy Mykhaylovych Bal was a Soviet and Ukrainian professional footballer who played as a midfielder and football manager.

Alexander Beliavsky

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1953-.. (age 73)
Occupations: chess playercoach
Biography: 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.

Andreas Kotelnik

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1977-.. (age 49)
Occupations: boxer
Biography: 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.

Igor Ter-Ovanesyan

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1938-.. (age 88)
Occupations: long jumperathletics competitor
Biography: 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.

Vadym Tyshchenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1963-2015 (aged 52)
Occupations: association football playerassociation football coach
Biography: Vadym Mykolayovych Tyshchenko or Vadim Nikolayevich Tishchenko was a Soviet and Ukrainian association football player and Ukrainian coach.

Yana Shemyakina

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1986-.. (age 40)
Occupations: fencer
Biography: Yana Volodymyrivna Shemyakina is a Ukrainian right-handed épée fencer, three-time Olympian, and 2012 individual Olympic champion.

Stepan Yurchishyn

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1957-2025 (aged 68)
Occupations: association football playerassociation football coach
Biography: Stepan Fedorovych Yurchyshyn was a Ukrainian football player and manager.

Dmytro Boiko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1986-.. (age 40)
Occupations: fencer
Biography: Dmytro Boiko is a Ukrainian sabre fencer.

Viktor Sidyak

Born in: Russia
Years: 1943-.. (age 83)
Occupations: fencer
Biography: 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".

Artur Ayvazyan

Born in: Armenia
Years: 1973-.. (age 53)
Occupations: sport shooter
Biography: 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.

Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1971-.. (age 55)
Occupations: association football playerassociation football coach
Biography: 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.

Vasyl Kardash

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1973-.. (age 53)
Occupations: association football playerassociation football coach
Biography: Vasyl Yaroslavovych Kardash is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Yaroslav Kendzior

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1941-.. (age 85)
Occupations: politician
Biography: 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.

Oleksandr Chernetskyi

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1984-.. (age 42)
Occupations: amateur wrestler
Biography: Oleksandr Stepanovych Chernetskyi is an amateur Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler, who wrestled for the men's super heavyweight category.

Serhiy Zaytsev

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1973-.. (age 53)
Occupations: association football playerassociation football coach
Biography: Serhiy Ilarionovych Zaytsev is a Ukrainian football manager and former player who played as a defender.

Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1947-2020 (aged 73)
Occupations: association football playerassociation football coach
Biography: Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi was a Ukrainian football manager.

Ihor Kulchytskyi

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1941-.. (age 85)
Occupations: association football playerassociation football coach
Biography: Ihor Yevstakhiyovych Kulchytskyi is a retired Soviet football player, Master of Sports of the USSR.

Tetiana Hamera-Shmyrko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1983-.. (age 43)
Occupations: marathon runnerathletics competitor
Biography: 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.

Vitaliy Shumbarets

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1983-.. (age 43)
Occupations: Nordic combined skierski jumper
Biography: 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.

Yuriy Mozharovsky

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1976-.. (age 50)
Occupations: association football refereeassociation football coachassociation football player
Biography: Yuriy Andriyovych Mozharovskyi is a Ukrainian professional football referee. He has been a full international for FIFA since 2011.

Martyn Kravtsiv

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1990-.. (age 36)
Occupations: chess player
Biography: Martyn Romanovich Kravtsiv is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013.

Ludmilla Arzhannikova

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1958-.. (age 68)
Occupations: archer
Biography: Lyudmila Leonidova Arzhannikova is an Olympic archer.

Vitali Golod

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1971-.. (age 55)
Occupations: chess player
Biography: Vitali Matveyevich Golod is a Soviet-born Israeli chess player. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 1996.

Andriy Mandziy

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1988-.. (age 38)
Occupations: luger
Biography: Andriy Vasylyovych Mandziy is a Ukrainian luger. He competed at the 2014, 2018, 2022 Winter Olympics and 2026 Winter Olympics.

Anfisa Pochkalova

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1990-.. (age 36)
Occupations: fencer
Biography: Anfisa Serhiyivna Pochkalova is a Ukrainian épée fencer. She is the 2009 world individual bronze medalist.

Vasyl Stankovych

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1946-.. (age 80)
Occupations: fencer
Biography: 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.

Volodymyr Hrabinskyi

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1974-.. (age 52)
Occupations: chess playercoach
Biography: Vladimir Alexandrovich 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.

Andriy Shandor

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1966-.. (age 60)
Occupations: association football refereeassociation football coachassociation football player
Biography: Andriy Arpadovych Shandor is a former Ukrainian professional football referee. He has been a full international for FIFA since 2002.

Volodymyr Bezubyak

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1957-.. (age 69)
Occupations: association football playerassociation football coach
Biography: Volodymyr Bezubyak is a former Ukrainian and Soviet football coach, as well as former professional midfielder, from Lviv.

Dmitri Stratan

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1975-.. (age 51)
Occupations: water polo player
Biography: 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.

Oksana Herhel

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1994-.. (age 32)
Occupations: amateur wrestler
Biography: Oksana Kukhta is a Ukrainian freestyle wrestler of Spartak sports club.

Oleh Shturbabin

Born in: Azerbaijan
Years: 1984-.. (age 42)
Occupations: fencer
Biography: 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.

Olena Stetskiv

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1994-.. (age 32)
Occupations: luger
Biography: Olena Andriivna Stetskiv is a Ukrainian luger. She participated at the 2014, 2018, and 2022 Winter Olympics.

Natalya Voytsekh

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1992-.. (age 34)
Occupations: badminton player
Biography: Natalya Aleksandrivna Voytsekh is a Ukrainian badminton player. She competed at the 2015 Baku European Games.