Serhiy Hryn

Serhij Mychailowytsch Hryn ( Ukrainian Сергій Михайлович Гринь ; born December 27, 1981 in Kiev ) is a Ukrainian rower . He won an Olympic bronze medal in quad sculls in 2004 . In 2006 he was World Cup second and in 2018 World Cup third.

Athletic career

Hryn reached fourth place in the four without a helmsman at the Junior World Championships in 1999 . At the 2002 World Championships , the 1.95 m tall Hryn finished twelfth with the Ukrainian eighth . In 2003 the Ukrainian quadruple with Dmytro Prokopenko , Oleh Lykow , Leonid Schaposchnykow and Serhij Hryn finished 13th at the World Championships in Milan . The following year, the Ukrainian quadruple competed at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens with Hryn, Serhiy Bilouschtschenko , Lykow and Schaposchnykow. After a second place in the preliminary run behind the Czech boat and a third place in the semi-finals behind the Poles and the Germans, the Ukrainians reached third place in the final, two seconds behind the Russians and 1.4 seconds behind the Czechs.

In 2005, the Ukrainian double scull reached the A final in all three regattas of the Rowing World Cup . At the World Championships in Gifu , Shaposchnykow, Bilouschtschenko, Lykow and Hryn took fourth place in the B final and thus tenth place in the overall standings. A year later at the World Championships in Eton rowing Volodymyr Pawlowskyj , Dmytro Prokopenko, Serhiy Bilouschtschenko and Serhiy Hryn in Ukrainian sculls, which the Poles reached one and a half seconds behind in second place and won the silver medal. In the same line-up, the Ukrainian quadruple competed at the 2007 World Championships in Munich and took sixth place. Three weeks after the World Championships, the 2007 European Championships were held in Poznan . The Ukrainians competed with Pavlovskyj, Bilouschtschenko, Lykow and Hryn and finished fourth, one second behind the third-placed Belarusians. Hryn, Pavlovskyj, Lykow and Bilouschtschenko also made up the double foursome, which finished eighth at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. A month after the Olympic Games, the four Ukrainians won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Athens in 2008 .

2009 Serhiy Hryn joined the World Championships in Poznan in one , but finished only fifth in the C-final. Three weeks later at the European Championships in Brest he was back in the double foursome. Hennadij Sacharschenko , Volodymyr Pawlowskyj, Kostjantyn Saizew and Serhij Hryn won the title before the Belarusians and Poles. At the 2010 European Championships in Montemor the Poles won ahead of the Croats, followed by Pawlowskyj, Hryn, Bilouschtschenko and Ivan Dowhodko the bronze medal. At the 2010 World Championships in New Zealand in November 2010, Ivan Futryk , Dowhodko, Pawlowskyj and Hryn finished tenth and last. In 2011, the Ukrainian double scull competed at the World Championships in Bled with Oleksandr Nadtoka , Volodymyr Pawlowskyj, Kostjantyn Saizew and Serhiy Hryn and finished eleventh. At the European Championships in Plovdiv , the four Ukrainians came in fifth. The following year, the Ukrainian double scull with Pavlovskyj, Saizew, Hryn and Dowhodko finished ninth at the Olympic Regatta in Eton . At the European Championships in Varese , Hryn finished fourth with the Ukrainian eighth.

In 2013, Hryn competed at the European Championships in Seville with Volodymyr Pawlowskyj in a double scull , the two reached tenth place. In 2014, Hryn took eighth place at the European Championships in Belgrade and twelfth place with the four without a helmsman at the World Championships in Amsterdam . In 2015, Hryn and Iwan Futryk won the bronze medal in a double scull at the European Championships in Poznan . At the 2015 World Championships on Lac d'Aiguebelette, the two took 17th place. After Hryn and Futryk could not qualify for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Hryn entered the world championships in the non-Olympic boat classes in two with a helmsman and took tenth place there.

In 2017, Hryn returned to the Ukrainian quadruple. Hryn, Artem Morozov , Iwan Dowhodko and Oleksandr Nadtoka took ninth place at the European Championships ; Yuri Ivanov , Oleksandr Lukianenko , Hryn and Dowhodko finished eleventh at the world championships . In 2018 at the European Championships in Glasgow Dmytro Michai , Hryn, Nadtoka and Dowhodko rowed into fourth place and were just 0.02 seconds behind the third-placed Poles. At the World Championships in Plovdiv, the Ukrainians won the bronze medal 0.11 seconds ahead of the fourth-placed New Zealanders. With the same line-up, the Ukrainians achieved sixth place at the European Championships in Lucerne and tenth place at the World Championships in Linz / Ottensheim in 2019 .

Web links

• Serhij Hryn at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Serhij Hryn in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ^ Finals of the 2004 Olympic Games at worldrowing.com
2. ↑ European Championship Final 2007 at worldrowing.com
3. ↑ European Championship finals 2018 at worldrowing.org
4. ↑ World Championship Finals 2018 at worldrowing.org