At first, the Deaflympiad was supposed to be held from December 5 to 21, 2021, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was postponed to 2022.

Already on the first day of competition, the Ukrainian team managed to win nine medals in three sports: six gold, two silver and one bronze..

Ukrainians got the most awards in karate, where they took three "

All medals of Ukraine on the first day of the Deaflympiad "

Elizaveta Topchanyuk (cycling, 1000 m), Karina Yanchuk (karate, kumite, up to 68 kg), Alexander Makhno (karate, kumite, up to 84 kg), Alexander Chernyaev (karate, kata), Ilya Sultanov (swimming, 50 m, butterfly.

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Nikolai Pantyushin (karate, kumite, over 84 kg), Alexander Chernyaev, Alexander Kalnik and Alexander Trityak (karate, kata, team).

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Irina Tereshchenko (swimming, 200m, medley).

Earlier, TSN Prosport wrote that the famous Ukrainian tennis player Sergei Stakhovsky put Spaniard Rafael Nadal in his place, who called the removal of Russians from Wimbledon unfair.