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.

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

Career edit

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 edit

Zakharkiv graduated from Lviv State University of Physical Culture.

Career results edit

Winter Olympics edit

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

World Championships edit

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

European Championships edit

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

Luge World Cup edit

Rankings edit

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 edit

  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).

External links edit