Kostyantyn Ryabenko

Kostyantyn Ryabenko
Date of birth	April 26, 1983
place of birth	Kiev , Ukrainian SSR
size	189 cm
Weight	107 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1999-2000	HK Sokil Kiev
2000-2001	HK Kiev
2001-2002	Krylya Sovetov Moscow
2002-2003	HK Kiev
2003-2004	HK Sokil Kiev
2005	Dniprovskye Volki Dnipropetrovsk
2005-2006	KH Sanok
2006-2007	Stoczniowiec Gdańsk
2007-2008	HK Sokil Kiev
2008-2009	HK ATEK Kiev
2009-2010	HK Berkut
2010–2012	HK Sokil Kiev
2012-2013	Dinamo Kharkiv
2013-2014	HK Sokil Kiev
2014	HK Beibarys Atyrau
2014-2016	CSM Dunărea Galați
since 2018	HK Krywbass

Kostjantyn Volodymyrowytsch Rjabenko ( Ukrainian Костянтин Володимирович Рябенко ; born April 26, 1983 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Krywbass in the Ukrainian ice hockey league since 2016 .

Career

Kostjantyn Ryabenko began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of HK Sokil Kiev . For the second team he ran in the 1999/2000 season in the B-Group East European Hockey League . In 2000 he moved to HK Kiev , who played in the A group of EEHL. He gained his first international experience at the age of 18 with Krylja Sowetow Moscow , for whose second team he played in the Pervaya League . After returning from Russia, he developed into a wanderer between the Ukrainian clubs, always returning to his regular club Sokil Kiew, for whom he last played again in 2013/14 and with whom he became Ukrainian champion in 2004 and 2008. With Dniprowskje Wolki Dnipropetrowsk he was Ukrainian runner-up in 2005, also with HK Berkut in 2010 and with HK Sokil Kiev in 2011 and 2012. From 2005 to 2007 he was under contract in the Polish Ekstraliga in Sanok and Gdansk . After a short trip to Kazakhstan in 2014, he played for CSM Dunărea Galați , with whom he became Romanian champion in 2015 and 2016 . In 2016 he won the Romanian ice hockey cup with the club . He then returned to the Ukraine, where he now plays for HK Krywbass .

International

Rjabenko was used in the junior division at the U20 World Championships in 2002 and 2003 in Division I for his home country. In 2003 he was promoted to the top division with the Ukrainian team.

For the senior national team of Ukraine, Ryabenko first played at the age of 30 in the 2013 World Cup , when he and his team were promoted from group B to group A in Division I. There he was used in the title fights in 2015 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2003 Promotion to the top division at the U-20 World Cup, Division I, Group A.
• 2004 Ukrainian champion with HK Sokil Kiev
• 2008 Ukrainian champion with HK Sokil Kiev
• 2013 Promotion to Division I, Group A, at the World Cup Division I, Group B
• 2015 Romanian champion with the CSM Dunărea Galați
• 2016 Romanian champion and cup winner with the CSM Dunărea Galați

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
EEHL	2	52	2	7th	9	62
PHL Regular Season	2	63	6th	12	18th	99
PHL payoffs	1	8th	0	1	1	14th

(Status: end of the 2012/13 season)

Web links

• Kostjantyn Rjabenko at eliteprospects.com (English)