Viktor Ruban

Viktor Hennadiyovych Ruban (Ukrainian: Віктор Геннадійович Рубан; born 24 May 1981 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is an Olympic gold medal winning former world number one Ukrainian archer.

Viktor Ruban

Ruban at the 2012 Olympics
Medal record
Men's Archery
Representing Ukraine
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	Individual
	2004 Athens	Team
World Archery Championships
	2009 Ulsan	Individual
World Indoor Championships
	2014 Nimes	Team
	2014 Nimes	Individual
	2012 Las Vegas	Team
	2018 Yankton	Team
World Cup Final
	2008 Lausanne	Individual
European Games
	2015 Baku	Men's team
European Archery Championships
	2012 Amsterdam	Team
	2016 Nottingham	Mixed team
European Indoor Championships
	2002 Ankara	Individual
	2006 Jaén	Team
	2011 Cambrils	Team
	2024 Varaždin	Team
	2010 Poreč	Team
	2011 Cambrils	Individual
	2019 Samsun	Team
Universiade
	2005 Izmir	Team
	2009 Belgrade	Individual

2004 Summer Olympics

Ruban competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32; he also won his second match, advancing to the round of 16. In the third match, he lost to Laurence Godfrey of Great Britain. Ruban placed 13th overall. Ruban was also a member of the bronze medal Ukrainian men's archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Ruban finished his ranking round with a total of 678 points, one point behind Juan René Serrano and equal with Mangal Singh Champia. This gave him the third seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Maged Youssef in the first round, beating the Egyptian 111-96. In the second round Ruban was too strong for Michael Naray (115-105) and via Jacek Proć (114-108) in the third round he advanced to the quarter-finals. There he had no problem beating Moriya Ryuichi 115-106. In the semi-final he and his opponent Bair Badënov both came to 112 points and an extra round was needed. Here Ruban scored 20 points and Badënov 18, which brought Ruban into the final. In the final he claimed the gold by beating Park Kyung-Mo by 113-112.

Together with Markiyan Ivashko and Oleksandr Serdyuk he also took part in the team event. With the highest score from the ranking round combined with the 676 of Serdyuk and the 658 of Ivashko Ukraine were in second position after the ranking round, which gave them a straight seed into the quarter-finals. With 214-211 they defeated the Chinese Taipei team, but in the semi-final they were eliminated by Italy 223-221. In the challenge for the bronze medal China was too strong with 222-219.

Individual performance timeline

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	SR
World Archery tournaments
Olympic Games				3R				W				QF				2R	1/4
World Championships	2R		1R		QF		3R		3rd		4R		3R		4R		0/6
World Cup
Stage 1						1R				1R	3rd	2R	4R	2R			0/6
Stage 2						1R	1R	QF	3R	3R	4R	QF	4R		4R		0/9
Stage 3							1R	3R	1R		3R			1R		3R	0/6
Stage 4								W	1R	QF			3R	2R			1/5
World Cup Final						DNQ	DNQ	2nd	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ		0/1
End of year world ranking	32	22	16	9	17	37	81	2	1	10	9	14	20	46	33

External links

• Viktor Ruban at World Archery
• Viktor Ruban at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Official results for Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-02-18)