Dmytro Chumak

Dmytro Chumak
Full name	Dmytro Oleksandrovych Chumak
Born	(1980-01-29) 29 January 1980
Weapon(s)	épée
Hand	left-handed
Height	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight	88 kg (194 lb)
Club	Dynamo Kyiv
Retired	2009
FIE Ranking	ranking (archive)
Medal record Men's épée World Championships 2005 Leipzig Team épée 2006 Turin Team épée European Championships 2001 Koblenz Team épée 2003 Bourges Team épée 2005 Zalaegerszeg Épée

Dmytro Chumak (Ukrainian: Дмитро Олександрович Чумак; born 29 January 1980) is a Ukrainian épée fencer.

Career

Chumak won a bronze medal at the 2005 European Championships in Zalaegerszeg after being defeated 13–15 in the semi-finals by Poland's Tomasz Motyka. Along with Dmytro Karyuchenko, Maksym Khvorost and Bohdan Nikishyn, he earned the bronze medal in the épée team event of the 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Hungary in the bronze medal match.

Chumak competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In the first round he defeated Venezuela's Rubén Limardo, who would become Olympic champion at the 2012 London Olympics, but was stopped in the table of 16 by South Korea's Jung Jin-sun. In the team event, Ukraine lost in the quarter-finals to Poland and finished 7th after the qualification rounds.

Chumak also coaches at the Fencing Academy of Westchester in Hawthorne, NY.

External links

• Profile at the European Fencing Confederation