Oleksiy Tsybko

Ukrainian rugby player and politician
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroUkrainian rugby player and politician
PlacesUkraine
wasAthlete Rugby union player Sports official Politician
Work fieldPolitics Sports
Gender
Male
Birth19 March 1967, Smila, Smila Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Death31 March 2022Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine (aged 55 years)
Star signPisces
Sports Teams
Ukraine national rugby union team
The details

Biography

Oleksiy Tsybko (19 March 1967 – 31 March 2022) was a Ukrainian rugby union international for the Ukraine national rugby union team from 1991 to 2003 who was killed during the retaking of Bucha from Russian forces.

Biography

Tsybko was rugby union player, who made forty appearances for the Ukraine national team; some as captain. From 2005 to 2007 he was President of the Union and he founded a rugby club in Smila which has 300 junior members. A former mayor of Smila, he joined the Ukraine military forces to defend the Crimea from Russian forces in 2014 and again in 2022. He died in March 2022 during the Russian invasion of Bucha. He was buried at Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article on 03 Dec 2023. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.