DEKHA Iryna

Olympic Games

Year	Location	75kg - Total
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	5th (247)

World Championships

Year	Location	76kg - Total	76kg - Snatch	76kg - C&J	81kg - Total	81kg - Snatch	81kg - C&J
2019	Pattaya, THA	5th (242)	4th (110)	5th (132)	-	-	-
2018	Ashgabat, TKM	-	-	-	6th (226)	6th (103)	10th (123)

European Championships

Year	Location	75kg - Total	75kg - Snatch	75kg - C&J	76kg - Total	76kg - Snatch	76kg - C&J
2021	Moscow, RUS	-	-	-	1st (248)	1st (113)	1st (135)
2019	Batumi, GEO	-	-	-	(---)	(---)	(---)
2017	Split, CRO	(---)	1st (120)	(---)	-	-	-

Legend
C&J - Clean & Jerk, (---) - no valid result, DSQ - Disqualified

Ira (Instagram profile, 30 Aug 2019)

Taking walks, going to the cinema, reading, animals. (noc-ukr.org, 13 Jul 2021; isport.ua, 03 Dec 2019)

Athlete

Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Education, Ukraine

Russian, Ukrainian

Dynamo [Kharkiv, UKR]

Yury Kuchinov [national], UKR; Evgen Shilov [personal], UKR

She took up the sport at age 11 in Barvinkove, Ukraine. (Athlete, 27 Oct 2018)

She followed her older sister into weightlifting. "I attended her training regularly, but she did not allow me to try. Once when she was not in the gym I had a go. I liked it, and in a month I went to a competition and liked it even more." (atn.ua, 27 Apr 2016)

To win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. (isport.ua, 03 Dec 2019; Athlete, 07 Sep 2019)

Finishing fifth in the 75kg category at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and winning gold in the 75kg at the 2016 European Championships in Forde, Norway. (Athlete, 27 Oct 2018)

Kazakhstani weightlifter Svetlana Podobedova. (Athlete, 27 Oct 2018)

Her older sister. (Athlete, 27 Oct 2018)

"Confident to move forward." (noc-ukr.org, 13 Jul 2021)

In 2018 she was named among the 10 Best Olympic Sports Athletes of the Year in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine. (kharkov-sport.com, 25 Jan 2019)

She has received the title of Honoured Master of Sport in Ukraine. (noc-ukr.org, 13 Jul 2021)