Vasyl Matviychuk

Vasyl Matviychuk

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Personal information
Full name	Vasyl Oleksandrovych Matviychuk
Nationality	Ukraine
Born	(1982-01-13) 13 January 1982 Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Height
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Long-distance running
Club	Dynamo Kolos-Khmelnytskyi
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	5000 m: 13:38.00 (2005) 10,000 m: 28:18.18 (2004) Half-marathon: 1:02:13 (2012) Marathon: 2:10:36 (2008)

Vasyl Oleksandrovych Matviychuk (Ukrainian: Василь Олександрович Матвійчук; born January 13, 1982 in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast) is a Ukrainian long-distance and marathon runner.

Career

He is a three-time national champion for the 5,000 and 10,000 metres. In 2001, he won the gold medal in the junior division at the European Cross Country Championships in Thun, Switzerland, with a time of 19 minutes and 29 seconds. He also set a personal best time of 2:10:36, by finishing fifth at the 2008 Turin Marathon.

Matviychuk represented Ukraine at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's marathon, along with his compatriots Oleksandr Kuzin and Oleksandr Sitkovskyy. He successfully finished the race in twenty-seventh place by eight seconds behind Morocco's Abderrahime Bouramdane, with a time of 2:17:50.

He was one of the subjects of the American documentary film, Spirit of the Marathon II, featuring his unsuccessful attempt to earn a spot in the Ukrainian Olympic team for the 2012 Summer Olympics at the 2012 Rome Marathon.

External links

• Vasyl Matviychuk profile at IAAF
• NBC Olympics Profile