15 Facts About Bohdan Nikishyn

Bohdan Serhiyovych Nikishyn is a Ukrainian right-handed epee fencer, 2015 team world champion, and three-time Olympian.

Bohdan Nikishyn won a bronze medal in the individual men's epee event at the 2016 European Fencing Championships in Torun, Poland, and a bronze medal in the individual men's epee event at the 2018 European Fencing Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Between 2006 and 2019, Bohdan Nikishyn won two FIE Men's Epee Grand Prix titles, in addition to two silver medals and four bronze medals.

Between 2008 and 2020, Bohdan Nikishyn won four FIE Men's Epee World Cup titles, in addition to four silver medals and three bronze medals.

Bohdan Nikishyn took up fencing at the age of ten after he came by chance to a fencing training.

Bohdan Nikishyn won a team silver medal at the 1998 Junior World Championships in Keszthely and joined the senior national team for the 2001 World Championships in Nimes.

Bohdan Nikishyn took part in the 2004 Summer Olympics, but was eliminated in the preliminary round by Romania's Alexandru Nyisztor.

Bohdan Nikishyn achieved his first World Cup podium with a bronze medal in the Doha Grand Prix.

At his second Olympics, Beijing 2008, Bohdan Nikishyn was stopped in the second round by Switzerland's Michael Kauter.

At the 2013 World Championships in Budapest Bohdan Nikishyn lost in the first round to Spain's Jose Luis Abajo.

Bohdan Nikishyn made his way to the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Championships in Kazan, where he lost to Korea's Park Kyoung-doo.

Bohdan Nikishyn finished the season as No 2 in world rankings.

At the World Championships in Moscow, Bohdan Nikishyn was eliminated again in the round of 16, losing to the eventual world champion Geza Imre.

Bohdan Nikishyn was educated at the Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Dnipropetrovsk.

Bohdan Nikishyn is married and has two children: Anastasia and Maksym.