Ihor Tsvietov

Ihor Tsvietov (Ukrainian: Ігор Сергійович Цвєтов; born 2 March 1994) is a Ukrainian Paralympic athlete with cerebral palsy. He competes as T35-classified athlete in 100 and 200 metres sprinting events. He won two gold medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: in the men's 100 metres T35 event and in the men's 200 metres T35 event.^[1] He also won the silver medal in the men's 100 metres T35 and men's 200 metres T35 events at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Ihor Tsvietov

Tsvietov at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
Personal information
Born	(1994-03-02) 2 March 1994 (age 31) Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Sport
Country	Ukraine
Sport	Para-athletics
Disability	Cerebral palsy
Disability class	T35
Events	100 metres 200 metres
Medal record Men's para-athletics Representing  Ukraine Paralympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m T35 2016 Rio de Janeiro 200 m T35 2024 Paris 100 m T35 2024 Paris 200 m T35 2020 Tokyo 100 m T35 2020 Tokyo 200 m T35 World Championships 2017 London 100 m T35 2017 London 200 m T35 2019 Dubai 100 m T35 2019 Dubai 200 m T35 2023 Paris 100 m T35 2023 Paris 200 m T35 European Championships 2018 Berlin 100 m T35 2018 Berlin 200 m T35 2021 Bydgoszcz 200 m T35 2021 Bydgoszcz 100 m T35

Career

Tsvietov winning the 100 metres T35 event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

He won the gold medal in the men's 100 metres T35 and men's 200 metres T35 events at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships held in London, United Kingdom.

Tsvietov also won the gold medals in the men's 100 metres T35 and men's 200 metres T35 events at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships.^[2][3] In both events he was the only medalist as there were only two competitors, Tsvietov and Jordan Howe, in these events.

At the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, he set a new world-record time of 11.07s in the men's 100 metres T35 event and also a new world-record time of 23.04s in the men's 200 metres T35 event.^[4][5]

After winning the silver medal at the 100 m T35 during the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics Tsvetov refused to take a joint photo with Russian bronze and gold medallist Artem Kalashian and Dmitrii Safronov due to strained Russia–Ukraine relations.^[6]

In 2023, he won the gold medal in the men's 100 metres T35 and men's 200 metres T35 events at the World Para Athletics Championships held in Paris, France.

Ihor Tsvietov firmly claimed the gold medal in the 100-metre race among representatives of the T35 class at the Paralympic Games 2024 in Paris, shaving four hundredths of a second off the world record.^[7]

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Ukraine
2016	Summer Paralympics	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1st	100 m	12.31s
			1st	200 m	25.11s
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	1st	100 m	12.38s
			1st	200 m	25.52s
2018	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	1st	100 m	12.77s
			1st	200 m	26.10s
2019	World Championships	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	1st	100 m	11.77s
			1st	200 m	23.04s
2021	European Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	3rd	100 m	11.90s
			1st	200 m	23.14s
	Summer Paralympics	Tokyo, Japan	2nd	100 m	11.47s
			2nd	200 m	23.25s
2023	World Championships	Paris, France	1st	100 m	11.78s
			1st	200 m	23.30s
2024	Summer Paralympics	Paris, France	1st	100 m	11.43s
			1st	200 m	23.19s