Oleksandr Abramenko

Oleksandr Abramenko, a freestyle skier from Ukraine with an Olympic gold medal, specialises in aerials. He won the Aerials World Cup in 2015–16. He participated in the Winter Olympics in 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018 and won the men’s aerials gold medal in Pyeongchang. Additionally, Abramenko won silver medals at the 2022 Winter Olympics and the 2019 World Championships.

In the 2017–18 pre–Olympic season, Abramenko had a shaky start, placing just 21st in Beijing. However, his performances eventually improved, and on January 19, 2018, in Lake Placid, New York, he won his ninth podium. After Jia Zongyang of China, he came in second place. His qualification for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, was ensured with these outcomes. He unexpectedly won the Winter Olympics in 2018. After Anton Kushnir, who competed for Belarus in 2014, Abramenko became the second Ukrainian by birth to win an Olympic gold in the freestyle event.

Abramenko won a silver medal at the World Championships in Utah, United States, on February 6, 2019. It was the first medal in men’s aerials competition history for Ukraine. Abramenko participated in his fifth Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022. His Aerials score of 116.5 earned him a silver medal. Volodymyr Abramenko, his father, is a former amateur football player who now works as a security guard at MFC Mykolaiv. Abramenko was largely unknown to the general public until he won the Olympic gold medal in 2018. His admirers were perplexed by his birthplace because several inhabited areas in Ukraine have names that seem similar to Pervomaiskyi. The New York Times reported on March 4, 2022, that Abramenko intended to travel to Mukachevo, in the Transcarpathian area, to stay with his coach Enver Ablaev.