Editing Ukraine (section)

=== Sport ===
{{Main|Sport in Ukraine}}
Ukraine greatly benefited from the Soviet emphasis on [[physical education]]. These policies left Ukraine with hundreds of stadia, swimming pools, gymnasia and many other athletic facilities.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-30127/Ukraine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080115053121/https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-30127/Ukraine |archive-date=15 January 2008 |title=Ukraine – Sports and recreation |access-date=12 January 2008 |website=Encyclopædia Britannica (fee required) |url-status=dead}}</ref> The most popular sport is [[Association football|football]]. The top professional league is the [[Ukrainian Premier League|Vyscha Liha]] ("premier league").

Many Ukrainians also played for the [[Soviet national football team]], most notably [[Ballon d'Or]] winners [[Ihor Belanov]] and [[Oleh Blokhin]]. This award was only presented to one Ukrainian after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, [[Andriy Shevchenko]]. The national team made its debut in the [[2006 FIFA World Cup]], and reached the quarterfinals before losing to eventual champions, [[Italy national football team|Italy]].

Ukrainian [[boxing|boxers]] are amongst the best in the world.<ref>{{cite news |title=Boxing Lessons learned from Dion's Ukraine Visit |url=https://www.vivafitness.com.au/boxing-lessons-learned-dions-ukraine-visit/ |work=Viva Fitness |date=14 September 2013}}</ref> Since becoming the undisputed cruiserweight champion in 2018, [[Oleksandr Usyk]] has also gone on to win the unified WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight titles. This feat made him one of only three boxers to have unified the cruiserweight world titles and become a world heavyweight champion.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Douglas |first=Steve |date=25 September 2021 |title=Usyk ends Joshua's reign as heavyweight champ |url=https://apnews.com/article/sports-boxing-anthony-joshua-wladimir-klitschko-evander-holyfield-3b9a7b202d5de124e4c2fee4298df8d4 |url-status=live |access-date=25 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022091409/https://apnews.com/article/sports-boxing-anthony-joshua-wladimir-klitschko-evander-holyfield-3b9a7b202d5de124e4c2fee4298df8d4 |archive-date=22 October 2021 |publisher=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> The brothers [[Vitali Klitschko|Vitali]] and [[Wladimir Klitschko]] are former [[heavyweight]] world champions who held multiple world titles throughout their careers. Also hailing from Ukraine is [[Vasyl Lomachenko]], a [[2008 Summer Olympics|2008]] and [[2012 Olympic games|2012 Olympic]] gold medalist. He is the [[Unified champion|unified]] [[lightweight]] world champion who ties the record for winning a world title in the fewest professional fights; three. As of September 2018, he is ranked as the world's best active boxer, [[pound for pound]], by [[boxing pound for pound rankings#ESPN|ESPN]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/23519498/espn-boxing-pound-pound-rankings-vasiliy-lomachenko-no-1 |title=Pound-for-pound rankings: Vasiliy Lomachenko still No. 1 |work=ESPN.com |access-date=18 May 2018}}</ref>

[[Sergey Bubka]] held the record in the [[Pole vault]] from 1993 to 2014; with great strength, speed and gymnastic abilities, he was voted the world's best athlete on several occasions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olympic.org/mr-sergey-bubka |access-date=27 May 2010 |title=Mr. Sergey BUBKA |author=International Olympic Committee |website=Official website of the Olympic Movement |quote=...&nbsp;voted world's best athlete on several occasions.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/archive/aoy.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511100602/http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/archive/aoy.html |archive-date=11 May 2011 |title=Track and Field Athlete of the Year |publisher=Trackandfieldnews.com |access-date=30 January 2011}}</ref>

[[Basketball]] has gained popularity in Ukraine. In 2011, Ukraine was granted a right to organise [[EuroBasket 2015]]. Two years later the [[Ukraine national basketball team]] finished sixth in [[EuroBasket 2013]] and qualified to [[2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup|FIBA World Cup]] for the first time in its history. [[Euroleague]] participant [[BC Budivelnyk|Budivelnyk Kyiv]] is the strongest professional basketball club in Ukraine.

[[Chess]] is a popular sport in Ukraine. [[Ruslan Ponomariov]] is the former world champion. There are about 85 [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmasters]] and 198 [[International Masters]] in Ukraine. [[Rugby league]] is played throughout Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rlef.eu.com/news/article/1480/legion-xiii-dominate-ukrainian-season |title=Legion XIII dominate Ukrainian season |publisher=RLEF |date=23 November 2017 |access-date=23 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201182718/http://www.rlef.eu.com/news/article/1480/legion-xiii-dominate-ukrainian-season |archive-date=1 December 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref><!-- Adding other sports – consider adding any expansion to the "main" page [[Sport in Ukraine]] -->