Losses in Ukrainian sports during the Russian-Ukrainian war in the 21st century

The aggression against Ukraine launched by the Russian Federation prompted Ukrainian athletes to defend their country. The Russian-Ukrainian war has been going over ten years. Unfortunately, people are dying, cities are being destroyed, including sports facilities. In mass media, officials from Ukrainian sports from time to time published the figures of the total losses of athletes in the Russian-Ukrainian war. This figure is impressive and now amounts 488 dead athletes and coaches. Despite the tragic nature of the total number of killed Ukrainian athletes, no analysis of losses by sports has been done until now. Lists of deceased athletes from various Internet sources were used in the study. The analysis of the dead athletes by sport shows that among the dead athletes there are both experienced athletes who won victories at all-Ukrainian and international competitions, coaches, and talented young people who were the sports hope of Ukraine. It was found that athletes who were various sports died: football, American football, motorball, field and ice hockey, volleyball, basketball, handball, rugby, pankration, powerlifting, boxing, Thai boxing, kickboxing, shooting and archery, payball, academic rowing and Dragon boating, rowing slalom, Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling, Cossack duel, horting, hand-to-hand combat, sambo, judo, karate, karate-do, jiu-jitsu, free fight, kyokushinkai karate, taekwondo, sumo, kudo, decathlon, sea multi-sports, triathlon, sports orientation, mountaineering and rock climbing, sports hiking and ski tourism, ski racing, snowboarding, biathlon, cycling, tennis and table tennis, swimming, water polo, figure skating, fencing, gymnastics, acrobatics, bodybuilding, arm wrestling, kettlebell sports, shot put and discus throwing, weightlifting and athletics, sports dancing, chess, crossfit and flying disc, parachuting, car and motor sports. Many athletes have been awarded the highest state awards of Ukraine for their courage in defending the country.