Ukraine’s First Black Lawmaker Is Now Also Its First Gold Medalist In Tokyo

Written by on August 5, 2021

Zhan Beleniuk takes his job pretty seriously.

He's Ukraine's first Black lawmaker and the first deputy head of the Committee on Youth and Sports in parliament. "The main goal is to develop sports in Ukraine, the sports movement, so that our nation could be healthy, athletic and show good results in the international arena," he said in a 2019 interview.

On Wednesday he led by example . . .



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