Yaroslav Tkach

Yaroslav Tkach
Yaroslav Tkach at the 2020 European Championships
Personal information
Native nameЯрослав Ткач
NationalityUkrainian
Born (2001-10-31) 31 October 2001 (age 23)
Kremenchuk, Ukraine
Years active2015–present
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Sport
CountryUkraine
SportCompetition climbing
Event(s)speed, combined
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Games 1
World Games
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Birmingham Speed

Yaroslav Tkach (Ukrainian: Ярослав Ткач, born 31 October 2001) is a Ukrainian competition speed climber. He is 2022 World Games bronze medalist.[1][2]

Career

He competed in the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There he was 11th (out of 21 competitors) in the boys' combined competition.[3]

Tkach debuted at the senior level in 2018 when he participated at the 2018 World Championships. He finished 5th at the 2020 European Championships. In the 2021 season, Tkach finished 10th in the men's IFSC World Cup in the competition speed discipline. He finished 10th in the combined classification at the 2021 World Championships.

In the qualification seeding round of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tkach received the 7th with the best time of 5.11. He finished the competition after losing 0.01 seconds to France's Bassa Mawem in the next round and placed in the 9th position.

Major results

Olympic Games

Discipline 2024
Speed 9

World championships

Discipline 2018 2019 2021 2023
Speed 110 30 11
Bouldering 94
Lead 96
Combined 10

World Cup

Discipline 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Speed 48 10 59 22 18

European championships

Discipline 2019 2020 2022 2024
Speed 14 5 9 7

References