Oleksandr Honcharuk

“On April 11, 2000, at 1:27 a.m., in Kyiv, on General Vatutin Avenue (Dnipro District), two cars, a Mercedes-300 and Peugeot-405, collided, resulting in an accident which left four dead. It became known that the Mercedes belonged to Viktor Leonenko, Ukraine’s best soccer player in 1992-1994,...

A paradoxical fact: proclaiming Mohammed Ali (he left behind the soccer king Pele, the ice-hockey wizard Wayne Gretzky, and His Basketball Highness Michael Jordan), the outgoing century’s best athlete, some influential sports publications had to sadly admit in unison that this happened at the...

Hanna Bezsonova, an alumna of the well-known Kyiv-based Deriuhinas School, is soon to turn sixteen. Today, this young grace, who has already knocked at the door of international modern rhythmic gymnastics, has all the promise of a bright future. The daughter of parents well-known in the sporting...

It is clear that Ukrainian boxing aficionados have become accustomed to Volodymyr and Vitaly Klychko’s brilliants victories, the latest of which Volodymyr won on march 18. But a new young star seems to be rising on the world horizon, 19 year-old Oleksandr Vietukh, an alumnus of the Sevastopol...

March 11-12 saw the traditional international modern rhythmic gymnastics tournament, Deriuhina Cup 2000 Grand Prix, held in Kyiv’s Palace of Sports. It is for the first time in the history of these competitions that the main combined-events prize left Ukraine. Before this year, only Ukrainian...

Andriy Biba, the legendary halfback of Kyiv Dynamo, scored 69 goals in 246 domestic championship matches. He played on the team which broke in 1961 the longtime hegemony of Moscow clubs in Soviet soccer and became USSR champion. The hardest period of his childhood fell in the war years which...

Tamara Yerofieyeva, first-year stu dent in the Sports Department of the National Physical Culture University of Ukraine, is in for busy days. The bronze medal winner in the exercise with the rope in the world championship in modern rhythmic gymnastics is preparing for the first serious exam period...

The Day's Oleksandr Honcharuk met Andriy Dernovsky, the author of the most resounding sensation of the Davis Cup match, the next day after his stunning victory over Joao Cunha-Silva. "Andriy, you were unknown to the general circle of tennis aficionados before the Davis Cup. And now you come out...

Frankly speaking, when the telephone rang at the newspaper’s sporst desk and the person at the other end of the line began to talk about some water because of which Ukraine’s national soccer team had failed to make it to the European championship finals, I thought, nothing but another Alan Chumak...

The Day’s correspondent met the Northern European Basketball League (NEBL) commissioner, and Olympic champion Sarunas Marciulionis during the debut of the Kyiv Basketball Club in the starting League matches recently held at Kyiv’s Palace of Sports. Sarunas, a well-known and respected personality in...