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In a flurry of strong, last-minute performances during the final two days of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Ukraine picked up seven medals, boosting its total medal count to 20.

That’s seven short of Ukraine’s result in the 2008 summer Olympics held in Beijing, but still respectable considering the nation as of mid-day Aug. 12 ranked around 14th in the gold medal ranking. At the London games, Ukraine’s athletes had mustered six gold, five silver and nine bronze medals.

In the last hours of the London Olympic games on Aug. 12, Ukraine’s Vasyl Lomachenko won his second
straight Olympic boxing gold medal
in the lightweight category with a 19-9
victory over South Korea’s Han Soon-chul.

Also on Aug. 12, Ukrainian Valerii Andriitsev picked up a silver medal in the men’s 96 kilogram freestyle wrestling. 

One day earlier, Lomachenko’s teammate  Oleksandr Usyk won a gold medal in the heavyweight finals and Denys Berinchyk picked up a silver medal.

In total, three Ukrainian boxers advanced to gold-medal bouts.  Ukraine’s boxing team leads the Olympic field with five boxing medals.

On Aug. 11, Yuri Cheban won a gold in the Men’s 200 meter Canoe Single and Inna Osypenko-Radomska won a silver medal in sprint canoeing.

Ukraine’s Oleksandr Pyatnytsya late on Aug. 11 won the silver medal with a 84.51 meter javelin throw.