Vadym Gutzeit
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Vadym Gutzeit (Ukrainian: Вадим Маркович Гутцайт; also Vadym Guttsayt or Vadym Markovych Huttsayt; born 6 October 1971) is a Ukrainian Olympic champion sabre fencer, and former Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister, as well as the president of the Ukrainian Fencing Federation and the President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.
Vadym Gutzeit | |
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Вадим Гутцайт | |
Minister of Youth and Sports | |
In office 4 March 2020 – 9 November 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Denys Shmyhal |
Preceded by | Volodymyr Borodiansky |
President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine | |
Assumed office 17 November 2022 | |
Preceded by | Serhiy Bubka |
Personal details | |
Born | Vadym Markovych Gutzeit (1971-10-06) 6 October 1971 (age 52) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
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Country | Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon | Sabre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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He was world junior sabre champion in 1989 and 1990, fenced in three Olympic Games, was sabre team Olympic champion in 1992, won a bronze medal in the 1991 World Fencing Championships, and was the 2005 Maccabiah Games sabre champion. Since March 2020, Gutzeit has been Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister.[2] He has been an international referee for the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE) since 2002. Gutzeit was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the FIE in 2013.