The Association of Sports Journalists of Ukraine has determined the country's best athletes in 2021. The expert jury gave the athletes points, on the basis of which the rating was formed.
Zhan Beleniuk, the Olympic champion of Tokyo in Greco-Roman wrestling, received the most points. He brought Ukraine the only "gold" at the 2020 Olympics.
In second place is two-time Olympic swimming medalist Mikhail Romanchuk, who won silver and bronze. Lyudmila Luzan, who won Olympic silver in the 500-meter double canoe and bronze in the 200-meter single swim, took third place.
Also in the TOP-10 best Ukrainian athletes of the year were Yelena Starykova, who won the silver medal of the Olympic track cycling sprint, and the artistic swimming duo Anastasiya Savchuk and Marta Fedyna.
Top 20 best athletes of Ukraine-2021:
- Zhan Beleniuk (Greek-Roman wrestling) — 113 points;
- Mikhail Romanchuk (swimming) — 75 points;
- Lyudmila Luzan (kayak and canoe rowing) — 72 points;
- Alexander Usyk (boxing) — 71 points;
- Elena Kostevich (shooting) — 48 points;
- Andrey Yarmolenko (football) — 34 points;
- Anastasia Savchuk / Marta Fedina (artistic swimming) — 32 points;
- Elina Svitolina (tennis) — 27 points;
- Daria Belodyd (judo) — 26 points;
- Elena Starykova (cycling) — 22 points;
- Anzhelika Terlyuga (karate) — 21 points;
- Alexander Khizhnyak (boxing) — 16 points;
- Parviz Nasibov (Greco-Roman wrestling) — 12 points;
- Igor Reizlin (fencing) — 11 points;
- Alla Cherkasova (wrestling) — 7 points;
- Yaroslav Maguchykh (athletics) — 5 points;
- Iryna Kolyadenko (wrestling) — 3 points;
- Stanislav Horuna (karate) — 3 points;
- Oleg Omelchuk (shooting) — 3 points;
- Yury Zakharev (boxing) — 1 point.
