Viktor Ruban

Viktor Ruban

Ruban at the 2012 Olympics
Medal record
Men's Archery
Representing  Ukraine
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2008 BeijingIndividual
Bronze medal – third place2004 AthensTeam
World Archery Championships
Bronze medal – third place2009 UlsanIndividual
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place2014 NîmesTeam
Silver medal – second place2014 NîmesIndividual
Bronze medal – third place2012 Las VegasTeam
Bronze medal – third place2018 YanktonTeam
World Cup Final
Silver medal – second place2008 LausanneIndividual
European Games
Gold medal – first place2015 BakuMen's team
European Archery Championships
Bronze medal – third place2012 AmsterdamTeam
Bronze medal – third place2016 NottinghamMixed team
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place2002 AnkaraIndividual
Gold medal – first place2006 JaénTeam
Gold medal – first place2011 CambrilsTeam
Gold medal – first place2024 VaraždinTeam
Silver medal – second place2010 PorečTeam
Bronze medal – third place2011 CambrilsIndividual
Bronze medal – third place2019 SamsunTeam
Universiade
Gold medal – first place2005 İzmirTeam
Gold medal – first place2009 BelgradeIndividual

Viktor Hennadiyovych Ruban (Ukrainian: Віктор Геннадійович Рубан; born 24 May 1981 in Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian archer. He is an Olympic gold medal winner and former world number one.[1][2]

2004 Summer Olympics

Ruban competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32; he also won his second match, advancing to the round of 16. In the third match, he lost to Laurence Godfrey of Great Britain. Ruban placed 13th overall. Ruban was also a member of the bronze medal Ukrainian men's archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Ruban finished his ranking round with a total of 678 points, one point behind Juan René Serrano and equal with Mangal Singh Champia. This gave him the third seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Maged Youssef in the first round, beating the Egyptian 111-96. In the second round Ruban was too strong for Michael Naray (115-105) and via Jacek Proć (114-108) in the third round he advanced to the quarter-finals. There he had no problem beating Moriya Ryuichi 115-106. In the semi-final he and his opponent Bair Badënov both came to 112 points and an extra round was needed. Here Ruban scored 20 points and Badënov 18, which brought Ruban into the final. In the final he claimed the gold by beating Park Kyung-Mo by 113-112.

Together with Markiyan Ivashko and Oleksandr Serdyuk he also took part in the team event. With the highest score from the ranking round combined with the 676 of Serdyuk and the 658 of Ivashko Ukraine were in second position after the ranking round, which gave them a straight seed into the quarter-finals. With 214-211 they defeated the Chinese Taipei team, but in the semi-final they were eliminated by Italy 223-221. In the challenge for the bronze medal China was too strong with 222-219.

Individual performance timeline

Tournament2001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016SR
World Archery tournaments
Olympic Games 3R W QF 2R 1/4
World Championships 2R 1R QF 3R 3rd 4R 3R 4R 0/6
World Cup
Stage 1 1R 1R 3rd 2R 4R 2R 0/6
Stage 2 1R 1R QF 3R 3R 4R QF 4R 4R 0/9
Stage 3 1R 3R 1R 3R 1R 3R 0/6
Stage 4 W 1R QF 3R 2R 1/5
World Cup Final DNQ DNQ 2nd DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ 0/1
End of year world ranking 32 22 16 9 17 37 81 2 1 10 9 14 20 46 33

References

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