Vadym Gutzeit

Vadym Gutzeit
Вадим Гутцайт
Gutzeit in 2014
Minister of Youth and Sports
In office 4 March 2020 – 9 November 2023
Prime Minister	Denys Shmyhal
Preceded by	Volodymyr Borodiansky
President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 November 2022
Preceded by	Serhiy Bubka
Personal details
Born	Vadym Markovych Gutzeit (1971-10-06) 6 October 1971 (age 52) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)

Sport
Country	Ukraine
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Sabre
Hand	right-handed
Medal record Men's sabre Representing the  Unified Team Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Team sabre[1] Representing  Soviet Union World Championships 1991 Budapest Team sabre 1991 Budapest Individual sabre World Juniors Championships 1989 Athens Individual 1990 Mödling Individual Representing  Ukraine European Championships 2000 Madeira Team sabre Summer Universiade 1997 Sicily Individual 1999 Palma de Mallorca Individual 1995 Fukuoka Individual 1997 Sicily Team Maccabiah Games 2005 Israel Individual sabre 2005 Israel Team sabre 2001 Israel Individual sabre

Vadym Gutzeit (Ukrainian: Вадим Маркович Гутцайт; also Vadym Guttsayt or Vadym Markovych Huttsayt; born 6 October 1971) is a Ukrainian Olympic champion sabre fencer, and former Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister, as well as the president of the Ukrainian Fencing Federation and the President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.

He was world junior sabre champion in 1989 and 1990, fenced in three Olympic Games, was sabre team Olympic champion in 1992, won a bronze medal in the 1991 World Fencing Championships, and was the 2005 Maccabiah Games sabre champion. Since March 2020, Gutzeit has been Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister.^[2] He has been an international referee for the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE) since 2002. Gutzeit was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the FIE in 2013.