Andrii Olehovych Kulyk (Ukrainian: Андрій Олегович Кулик; born 18 December 1998) is a Ukrainian wrestler. He is a bronze medallist of the World Wrestling Championships.
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| Native name | Андрій Олегович Кулик | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Andrii Olegovich Kulyk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 18, 1998 Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Amateur wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | 72 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Greco-Roman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editKulyk's first senior international championship was the 2020 European Championships in Rome, Italy, where he lost in his very first bout against Hungary's Róbert Fritsch.[1]
The following year was more successful for Kulyk. He won a silver medal at the 2021 European U23 Championship in Skopje, North Macedonia, where he lost in the final to Malkhas Amoyan from Armenia. He also participated at the 2021 U23 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, and managed to reach the quarterfinals (after defeating Francesco Bellino from Italy and Andrei Kavaleuski from Belarus, but losing to Shant Khachatryan from Armenia).[1]
Kulyk participated at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships, being awarded a bronze medal[2] in the men's Greco-Roman 72 kg event. Though he lost to the eventual World Champion Ali Arsalan representing Serbia, he first defeated Róbert Fritsch from Hungary and Kristupas Šleiva from Lithuania, and then narrowly won in the bronze medal bout against Ibrahim Ghanem from France.[3][4] That season, Kulyk also won a bronze medal of the Grand Prix Zagreb Open, while his teammate and Olympic silver medallist Parviz Nasibov was victorious.
References
edit- ^ a b "Statistics for Andrii Kulyk". United World Wrestling. 20 September 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- ^ Shefferd, Neil (11 September 2022). "Hosts Serbia take two golds on opening day of finals at World Wrestling Championships". Inside the Games. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
Bronze medals in the category went the way of Turkey's Selcuk Can and Andrii Kulyk of Ukraine.
- ^ "World Championships Results: Weight Category (Results GR 72)". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
Ali Feizollah ARSALAN (SRB) df. Andrii KULYK (UKR)
- ^ "Андрій Кулик здобув першу медаль України на чемпіонаті світу з греко-римської боротьби" [Andrii Kulyk won Ukraine's first medal at the Greco-Roman World Championship]. Suspilne (in Ukrainian). 11 September 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
External links
edit- Andrii Kulyk at United World Wrestling
- Andrey Kulik at the International Wrestling Database
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