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Vadym Gutzeit

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Vadym Gutzeit

Vadym Markovych Gutzeit (Ukrainian: Вадим Маркович Гутцайт; born 6 October 1971) is a Ukrainian sports administrator and retired sabre fencer.

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Vadym Markovych Gutzeit (Ukrainian: Вадим Маркович Гутцайт; born 6 October 1971) is a Ukrainian sports administrator and retired sabre fencer. He represented the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where he won the gold medal in the men's team sabre event, and competed for Ukraine at the 1996 and 2000 Games, placing sixth individually in 1996. Gutzeit also earned a bronze medal in individual sabre at the 1992 World Fencing Championships and multiple golds at the Universiade. After his competitive career, he coached Ukraine's national fencing team to the women's team sabre gold at the 2008 Olympics. Gutzeit served as Minister of Youth and Sports from 2020 until his resignation in November 2023, and has been president of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine since 2022.

Vadym Gutzeit was born on 6 October 1971 in Kyiv, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union, into a Jewish family.

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