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Vladyslav Heraskevych
	Heraskevych in 2021
Personal information
Born	12 January 1999 (age 25); Kyiv, Ukraine
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Sport
Country	Ukraine
Sport	Skeleton

Vladyslav Mykhailovych Heraskevych (Ukrainian: Владислав Михайлович Гераскевич; born 12 January 1999) is a Ukrainian skeleton racer who has competed since 2014. He is the first-ever Ukrainian skeleton racer.

Career

His father, Mykhailo Heraskevych, trains Heraskevych. He began competing in 2014. Previously, he tried boxing.

In February 2016, he participated at 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, where he finished 8th.^[1] A month earlier, he was 17th at the Junior World Championships in Winterberg, Germany. The following year, he achieved 10th place at the Junior Worlds in Sigulda, Latvia.

On 24 February 2017, he became the first-ever Ukrainian athlete to compete in skeleton at World Championships.^[2] He finished 24th at 2017 World Championships in Königssee, Germany.

On 10 November 2017, he debuted in Skeleton World Cup and was 27th in Lake Placid, United States. That season he participated in 7 of 8 races and ranked 24th in World Cup classification.

On 15 January 2018, it was announced that Ukraine received one quota spot for the men's skeleton competition which was the first ever for Ukraine in this sport.^[3] At the Olympics, he finished 12th (in the final fourth run he was even 7th) in what was regarded in Ukraine as an enormous success.^[4]^[5] After such a success, Ukrainian Public TV company UA:First started to broadcast Skeleton World Cup for the first time in the history of Ukrainian television.^[6]

In the next World Cup season, Heraskevych started very well by finishing 9th in Sigulda, Latvia. But, he wasn't successful at the European Championships, where he failed to qualify for the second run. At the 2019 World Championships, he finished 14th.

Before the Olympic 2021–22 season, Heraskevych showed relatively stable results, reaching twice Top-10 and qualifying for all second runs in the races he took part in. On 31 December 2022, Heraskevych achieved his new World Cup best finish by ranking 6th in Latvian Sigulda.

In 2022, Heraskevych was nominated for his second Winter Games in Beijing.^[7] At the Games, he displayed a sign stating "No War in Ukraine" (in reference to the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis), a possible violation of Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter that bans all political displays and demonstrations.^[8] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) stated that Heraskevych would not face repercussions for the sign, calling it a "general call for peace".^[9]

Four days after the end of the Olympic Games, the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine started. Heraskevych helped deliver food and supplies to the Ukrainian people. ^[10]

Personal life

Heraskevych graduated from the faculty of physics at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.^[11]

Career results

Winter Olympics

Year	Event	Rank
2018	Pyeongchang, South Korea	12
2022	Beijing, China	18

World Championships

Year	Event	Rank
2017	Königssee, Germany	24
2019	Whistler, Canada	14
2020	Altenberg, Germany	14
2021	Altenberg, Germany	13

European Championships

Year	Event	Rank
2018	Innsbruck, Austria	15
2019	Innsbruck, Austria	15
2020	Sigulda, Latvia	11
2021	Winterberg, Germany	11
2022	St. Moritz, Switzerland	10

Skeleton World Cup

Rankings

Season	Rank	Points
2017–18	24	404
2018–19	9	944
2019–20	13	896
2020–21	13	880
2021–22	16	816

Results

Season	Place	Points	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
2017–18	24th	404	LPL 27	PAC 13	WHI 18	WIN 31	IGL 27	ALT —	STM 26	KON 15
2018–19	9th	944	SIG 9	WIN 17	ALT 14	IGL 22	STM 12	LPL 12	CAL 12	CAL 9
2019–20	13th	896	LPL 12	LPL 18	WIN 16	LAP 8	INS 17	KON 11	STM 16	SIG 14
2020–21	13th	896	SIG 12	SIG 9	INS 14	INS 11	WIN 11	STM 11	KON —	INS 18
2021–22	16th	816	INS 22	INS 21	ALT 10	WIN 19	ALT 12	SIG 6	WIN 25	STM 11