Kiev, 6 April – Vasyl Fedoryshyn (freestyle wrestling) and Inna Osypenko-Radomska (canoe and kayak) were celebrated as the Best Male and the Best Female Athletes of the year, last March 31th at the National Academic Operetta Theatre, were the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine warmly welcomed for the fifth time the participants and guests of the “Heroes of Sports Year” Ceremony.

Those who in 2010 conquered the most prestigious sports podiums along with those who remained behind the scenes of great victories, day by day contributing to the development of Ukrainian sport and promoting a healthy lifestyle, gathered together to learn whose achievements were acknowledged to be the most significant by the Ukrainian Academy of Sport.

Representatives of the Presidents Administration, Ukrainian Parliament and Government, and famous Ukrainian Olympians of past years came to congratulate the sports year winners. The latter received exclusive statuettes, diplomas and gifts from sponsors of the ceremony, and the best male athlete and female athlete of 2010 were presented with cars by the Borys Kolesnikov Foundation.

WINNERS OF THE ALL-UKRAINIAN AWARDING CEREMONY
«HEROES OF 2010 SPORTS YEAR»

1. 1.     THE BEST MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

VASYL FEDORYSHYN silver medallist of the World Championships in freestyle wrestling, bronze medallist of the European Championships in freestyle wrestling (60 kg)

1. 2.     THE BEST FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

INNA OSYPENKO-RADOMSKA champion and silver medallist of the World Canoe and Kayak Championships (C-1 canoe single)

1. 3.     THE BEST COACH OF THE YEAR

DMYTRO RADOMSKYY personal coach of the champion and the silver medallist of the World Canoe and Kayak Championships Inna Osypenko-Radomska

1. 4.     THE BEST TEAM OF THE YEAR (NATIONAL TEAM)

WOMEN ROWING QUADRUPLE SCULLS CREW (Olena Buriak, Yana Dementieva, Anastasiya Kozhenkova, Kateryna Tarasenko) silver medallist of the World Championships and champion of the European Rowing Championships

1. 5.     SENSATION OF THE YEAR

YELIZAVETA BRYZGINA champion and silver medallist of the European Athletics Championships (relay, 200 m)

1. 6.     THE BEST SPORTS MANAGER OF THE YEAR

VALERIY BORZOV president of the Ukrainian Athletics Federation (for significant achievements in the events management and for winning a bid for the 2013 IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk as well as for successful performance of the national athletics teams at the European Championships, I Youth Olympic Games in Singapore and other international events)

1. 7.     THE PERSON OF FORTITUDE (PARALYMPIC SPORTS)

GANNA YELISAVETSKA five-times gold and one silver medal holder of the World Swimming Championships among athletes with a physical disability

1. 8.     SPONSOR OF THE SPORTS YEAR

SUMSUNG ELECTRONICS is an official sponsor of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine since 2000.

1. 9.     TOGETHER WITH THE OLYMPIANS (NON-OLYMPIC SPORTS)

NATIONAL MALE CHESS TEAM OF UKRAINE (Pavlo Yelianov, Zakhar Yefimenko, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Oleksandr Moiseyenko, Ruslan Ponomariov) champions of the 39th World Chess Olympiad.

10.  OLYMPIC HOPE OF UKRAINE

ANDRIY GOVOROV two-times champion in swimming of the Ist Youth Olympic Games

11.  SPORTS FAME OF UKRAINE

LARYSA LATYNINA nine-times Olympic champion in artistic gymnastics
LEONID ZHABOTYNSKYY two-times Olympic champion in weightlifting

12.  “SPORT FOR ALL” SPECIAL AWARD

The town of ARTEMIVSK (DONETSK region)