Oh, well. Sounds like nothing much is left to save. I hope it makes us all feel betterMy feeling was from watching JGP that Ukraine didn’t really have much. They had Kokura who didn’t move into seniors. I thought he would be interesting to watch but he seemed to have disappeared. Now there is Shmuratko. I thought he was great in Budapest earlier this year, then in Olympics, but he doesn’t seem to have technical base.
For reference, all previous medals EC, OG, WC junior and senior that Ukrainian skaters got since 1992 when the Ukraine was admitted as an ISU member state:
Men
Viacheslav Zagorodniuk 1994 WC bronze, 1994 EC silver, 1995 EC bronze, 1996 EC gold, 1997 EC bronze
Dmitri Dmitrenko 1993 EC gold, 2000 EC bronze
Viktor Petrenko 1994 EC gold
Women
Oksana Baiul 1993 WC gold, 1993 EC silver, 1994 EC silver, 1994 OG gold
Elena Liashenko 1995 EC bronze, 2004 EC silver, 2006 EC bronze
Yulia Lavrenchuk 1997 EC bronze
Pairs
Galina Maniachenko (later – Efremenko) / Evgeni Zhigurski 1994 JWC bronze
Evgenia Filonenko / Igor Marchenko 1995 JWC bronze, 1996 JWC silver
Julia Obertas / Dmytro Palamarchuk 1998 JWC gold, 1999 JWC gold, 2000 JWC silver
Aliona Savchenko / Stanislav Morozov 2000 JWC gold
Ice Dance
Irina Romanova / Igor Yaroshenko 1996 EC bronze
Natalia Gudina/Vitali Kurkudym 1996 JWC bronze
Elena Grushina/Ruslan Goncharov 2004 EC bronze, 2005 EC silver, 2005 WC bronze, 2006 EC silver, 2006 OG bronze
Oleksandra Nazarova/Maxim Nikitin 2015 JWC bronze
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