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Ukrainian Gymnast Kovtun Officially Changed Citizenship

The silver medal of the summer Olympics 2024, Ilya Kovtun, officially changed citizenship from Ukrainian to Croatian, as reported by the International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG). The beginning of the procedure became known in January. The 21-year-old athletes themselves confirmed that they were waiting for papers in the spring. Thus, Covtun would be able to perform at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles under the flag of Croatia. Ilya Kovtun, i…
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Changed citizenship: Ukrainian gymnast and Olympic medalist Ilya Kovtun will compete for CroatiaUkrainian gymnast Ilya Kovtun will represent Croatia from July 2026. The International Gymnastics Federation approved this decision, which the athlete explained by the war and lack of support in Ukraine.

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This was reported by the International Gymnastics Federation.photo: screenshot from the website of the federation As noted by Society.Sport, if Ukraine does not agree to the transfer of Kovtun, the athlete will expect a one-year quarantine outside the competition.21-year-old Ilya Kovtun is a silver medalist of the 2024 Olympics in exercises on the bars. He is the vice champion of the world - 2023 in multi-sport, also on the account of the athlet…

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The silver medal of the summer Olympics 2024, Ilya Kovtun, officially changed citizenship from Ukrainian to Croatian, as reported by the International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG). The beginning of the procedure became known in January. The 21-year-old athletes themselves confirmed that they were waiting for papers in the spring. Thus, Covtun would be able to perform at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles under the flag of Croatia. Ilya Kovtun, i…

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Gymnast Ilya Kovtun, who won a silver medal for Ukraine at the 2024 Olympics, changed sports citizenship from Ukrainian to Croatian on July 11

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The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has officially confirmed that 21-year-old artistic gymnast Ilya Kovtun has changed his citizenship from Ukrainian to Croatian. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to the official website of the organization. The process has been completed Kovtun's intention to change citizenship became known back in January - then the head coach of the Croatian team reported that the gymnast and his coach…

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rbc.ua broke the news in on Friday, July 11, 2025.
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