In Bulgaria, the World Cup in Cossack Fight and MMA concluded, which took place from June 25 to 30 at the Golden Sands resort complex near the city of Varna. More than one hundred fighters from eleven countries around the world participated in the competition. The organizers of the competition are the World Cossack Fight Federation (WCFF) and the World MMA Federation (WMMAF). Participating countries: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Moldova, Russia, Romania, Turkey, and Ukraine. The Ukrainian team took first place in the team standings. Ukrainian athletes honorably fulfilled their task, namely to present to the world their Ukrainian national martial art “Cossack Fight.” Special thanks to the political party “Voice of the People,” with whose support the trip of the Ukrainian national team was organized.
The winners of the World Cup in Cossack Fight in their respective weight categories and age groups were the following Ukrainian athletes:
Maxym Nakonechnyy (Lviv);
Yevhenii Dehopyk (Lviv);
Rostislav Mitelskyi (Pershotravenske);
Danilo Balaba (Kharkiv);
Maxym Nakonechnyy (Lviv);
Roman Olchovets (Lviv);
Taras Makarchuk (Lviv);
Vitaly Utymenko (Kharkiv);
Andrii Dekhtar (Rivne);
Mykola Nikolayev (Rivne);
Stanislav Halchevskyi (Dnipropetrovsk);
Mykola Kondratiuk (Rivne);
Oleh Shramko (Lutsk);
Roman Olkhovych (Lutsk);
Aleksandr Matveev (Kyiv);
Maxym Petroshchuk (Lutsk);
Dmytro Vlasyuk (Lutsk);
Stanislav Tymchenko (Dniprodzerzhynsk);
Volodymyr Radionov (Kyiv);
Andrii Plokhykh (Kharkiv);
Yaroslav Nesteruk (Kharkiv);
Vyacheslav Tichenko (Dniprodzerzhynsk);
Aleksandra Akastelova (Pershotravenske);
Inna Hutsal (Dniprodzerzhynsk);
The winners in MMA among adults were the following Ukrainian athletes:
Vitaly Sahayko (Dniprodzerzhynsk) up to 65 kg.;
Stanislav Reutskyi (Kharkiv) up to 71 kg.;
Vadym Orishchak (Dnipropetrovsk) up to 78 kg.;
Artem Shokalo (Kharkiv) up to 86 kg.
