1. Vadym Gutzeit is a Ukrainian Olympic champion sabre fencer, and former Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister, as well as the president of the Ukrainian Fencing Federation and the President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.
30 Facts About Vadym Gutzeit
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Vadym Gutzeit was world junior sabre champion in 1989 and 1990, fenced in three Olympic Games, was sabre team Olympic champion in 1992, won a bronze medal in the 1991 World Fencing Championships, and was the 2005 Maccabiah Games sabre champion.
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Since March 2020, Gutzeit has been Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister.
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Vadym Gutzeit has been an international referee for the Federation Internationale d'Escrime since 2002.
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Vadym Gutzeit was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the FIE in 2013.
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Vadym Gutzeit is married to Ukrainian journalist, radio and TV presenter, Oksana Gutzeit.
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Vadym Gutzeit won the Ukrainian national sabre championship when he was 15.
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Vadym Gutzeit won the gold medal in the Junior Under-20 Sabre World Fencing Championships in both 1989 and 1990.
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Vadym Gutzeit competed at four Universiade competitions, winning five medals between 1991 and 1999, with gold medals in the individual sabre events in 1997 and 1999.
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Vadym Gutzeit is an Olympic champion, and has competed in three Olympics.
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Vadym Gutzeit competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona for the Unified Team at the age of 20, and won a gold medal with the sabre team.
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Vadym Gutzeit took part in his third Olympiad at the 2000 Sydney Games, for Ukraine.
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Vadym Gutzeit, who is Jewish, competed for Ukraine at the 1997 Maccabiah Games in Israel.
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Vadym Gutzeit competed in the 2001 Maccabiah Games in Israel, and won the silver medal in individual sabre.
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Vadym Gutzeit was defeated in the gold medal final by Sergey Sharikov of Russia.
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Vadym Gutzeit won the gold medal at the 2005 Maccabiah Games, reaping revenge over Sharikov of Russia, as Ukraine won the team sabre gold medal.
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From 2002 to 2010, Vadym Gutzeit was the head coach of Ukraine's fencing team, which won an Olympic gold medal in women's team sabre in 2008.
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Vadym Gutzeit became an international referee in 2002 in all weapons for the International Fencing Federation.
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Vadym Gutzeit has since officiated in a number of major competitions, including the 2000,2004,2012, and 2021 Olympics.
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Vadym Gutzeit was vice president of the Ukrainian Fencing Federation from 2000 to 2016, has been President of the Federation since 2017, and has been a member of the executive committee of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine since 2004.
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Vadym Gutzeit is a Ukrainian Honored Master of Sports and Honored Coach of Ukraine.
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Vadym Gutzeit was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Federation Internationale d'Escrime in 2013.
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On 26 June 2018, Vadym Gutzeit was appointed head of the Kyiv City Council's Department of Youth and Sports.
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On 9 June 2019 Vadym Gutzeit announced he would take part in the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election with the party Servant of the People.
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On 4 March 2020, Vadym Gutzeit was voted in as Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister.
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Also in March 2023, Vadym Gutzeit said that Russia's invasion of Ukraine had so far killed 262 Ukrainian athletes, and destroyed 363 sports facilities in Ukraine.
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In 2023, Vadym Gutzeit, who had competed with Russian Olympic Committee president Stanislav Pozdnyakov when they were teammates from Ukraine and Russia on the post-Soviet Unified Team at the 1992 Olympics, said he had only contempt for Pozdnyakov.
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Vadym Gutzeit blames Pozdnyakov for vocally supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Vadym Gutzeit is my enemy, who supports this war, who considers it an honor for athletes to take part in the war against Ukrainians, to kill Ukrainians.
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On 8 November 2023 Vadym Gutzeit requested his dismissal as minister, so he could focus more on his work in the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.