Ukraine’s National Team Wins 30 Medals At Invictus Games

The Ukrainian national team has completed its performances at the 2025 Invictus Games, having won 30 medals.

Suspilne Sport reported on this.

The competitions took place in Canada, in the cities of Vancouver and Whistler. The Ukrainian team was represented by the largest squad in history – 35 veterans and military personnel.

The result – 30 medals, was the second best performance of Ukraine in the history of its participation in the Invictus Games.

The 2025 Invictus Games were held in a mixed format for the first time, combining both summer and winter disciplines. The competition program included 11 sports in total.

The traditional rowing, swimming, sitting volleyball, basketball, and wheelchair rugby were joined by winter disciplines such as skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, cross-country skiing, skeleton, and curling.

Ukrainian athletes won the most awards in swimming: 8 medals, including 5 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze. Cross-country skiing also brought the team significant success: 2 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze, which brought the team a total of 5 medals. The Ukrainian biathletes showed a similar result, having won 2 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals.

Snowboarding was another discipline where Ukraine managed to win: 2 gold and 1 bronze medal were added to the team’s treasury. In alpine skiing, Ukrainian athletes won 3 medals: 1 gold and 2 silver.

Rowing on simulators brought Ukraine 4 awards, all of them silver. The team also won one bronze medal each in skeleton and sitting volleyball.

The overall result of the Ukrainian team’s performance at the Invictus Games 2025 was 30 medals, including 12 gold, 11 silver and 7 bronze. This is one of the best results for Ukraine in the history of these competitions.

Ihor Oliinyk, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, became the most successful athlete on the Ukrainian team. He won six medals, including three gold and three silver. Oliinyk won the most medals – four – in swimming, demonstrating a high level of skill and endurance.

Overall, Ukraine ranked 3rd among the countries participating in the Invictus Games 2025. The Ukrainian team lost only to the United States and Australia, but in the medal standings overtook the United Kingdom and Italy, taking a place among the top five teams.

Invictus Games

The Invictus Games were launched in 2014 by British Prince Harry. The first competition took place the same year at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

Ukraine was eligible to participate in the 2017 event in Toronto for the first time as a NATO ally in peacekeeping operations around the world, as well as because of the ATO in eastern Ukraine.

In 2024, the Come Back Alive Foundation, together with Ciklum, raised UAH 10,200,800 for the rehabilitation of veterans through adaptive sports. As of September 2024, part of the money has already been spent on preparing the Ukrainian team for the Invictus Games 2025 during training camps.

In 2024, Ukraine launched the Veterans Games competition. In 2024, participants competed in two disciplines: crossfit and eSports.

The regional competitions were open to military personnel, war veterans, and persons discharged from military service or law enforcement who were injured, wounded, or ill during or as a result of their duties in the combat zone. The winners of the regional competitions then traveled to Kyiv to take part in the All-Ukrainian stage.