Vasyl Rachyba

Vasyl Dmyrovych Rachyba (Ukrainian: Василь Дмитрович Рачиба; born January 27, 1982, in Dolyna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast) is an amateur Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's light heavyweight category.^[1][2] He defeated Russia's Alan Khugayev for the gold medal in his respective division at the 2011 European Wrestling Championships in Dortmund, Germany.^[3] Rachyba is also a member of the wrestling team for CSKA Kyiv, and is coached and trained by Yury Tsikolenko.^[1]

Vasyl Rachyba

Personal information
Full name	Vasyl Dmyrovych Rachyba
Nationality	Ukraine
Born	(1982-01-27) 27 January 1982 (age 43) Dolyna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	88 kg (194 lb)
Sport
Sport	Wrestling
Event	Greco-Roman
Club	CSKA Kyiv[1]
Coached by	Yury Tsikolenko[1]
Medal record Men's Greco-Roman wrestling Representing  Ukraine European Championships 2011 Dortmund 84 kg 2004 Haparanda 74 kg

Rachyba represented Ukraine at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed for the men's 84 kg class. He defeated Tunisian wrestler and two-time Olympian Haykel Achouri in the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out the quarterfinal match to Georgia's Vladimer Gegeshidze, with a three-set technical score (1–2, 3–0, 0–1), and a classification point score of 1–3.^[4]