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Roman Zakharkiv

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Roman Zakharkiv
Zakharkiv in 2017
Personal information
Native nameРоман Ярославович Захарків
Full nameRoman Yaroslavovych Zakharkiv
NationalityUkrainian
Born (1991-01-24) 24 January 1991 (age 33)
Lviv, Ukraine
Sport
Country Ukraine
Sport Luge
EventDoubles

Roman Yaroslavovych Zakharkiv (Ukrainian: Роман Ярославович Захарків; born 24 January 1991 in Lviv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian luger who has competed since 2005. He participated at 2010, 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.

Career

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Zakharkiv has competed at international level since 2007 with Taras Senkiv. He qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics where he finished 19th in doubles event. After 2010–11 season he missed two years. During his absence he changed his partner. Since then he competes with Oleksandr Obolonchyk.

Zakharkiv competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Ukraine. In the doubles he was 17th. He was also a part of the Ukrainian relay team, which finished 11th.

After 2014 Olympics he became one of Ukrainian national team leaders and since then he participates in all major competitions. He participated in doubles and relay competitions at three World Championships without any great success.

As of January 2018, his best finish is 13th place in Sigulda, Latvia, in 2016-17 season.[1]

On 27 December 2017 Roman Zakharkiv qualified for 2018 Winter Olympics.[2] At that Games he competed together with Oleksandr Obolonchyk and finished 20th in doubles competition and 13th in team relay.

Personal life

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Zakharkiv graduated from Lviv State University of Physical Culture.

Career results

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Winter Olympics

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Year Event Doubles Relay
2010 Canada Vancouver, Canada 19
2014 Russia Sochi, Russia 17 11
2018 South Korea Pyeongchang, South Korea 20 13

World Championships

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Year Event Doubles Relay Doubles Sprint
2015 Latvia Sigulda, Latvia 19 10
2016 Germany Königssee, Germany DNF 13 21
2017 Austria Innsbruck, Austria 16 13 25

European Championships

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Year Event Doubles Relay
2014 Latvia Sigulda, Latvia 7
2015 Russia Sochi, Russia 14 5
2016 Germany Altenberg, Germany 18
2017 Germany Königssee, Germany 17 8
2018 Latvia Sigulda, Latvia 18 7

Luge World Cup

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Rankings

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Season Doubles Doubles Sprint
2007–08 29
2008–09 26
2009–10 26
2010–11 27
2013–14 24
2014–15 21
2015–16 23
2016–17 20 19
2017–18 23

References

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  1. ^ "Oleksandr Obolonchyk". FIL-Luge.org (in German). FIL.
  2. ^ "П'ятеро санкарів з Галичини вибороли ліцензії на Олімпіаду-2018" [Five sledders from Galicia won licenses for the 2018 Olympics]. zik.ua (in Ukrainian).
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