The Department of Physical Education was established in 1944. For this time the department鈥檚 staff gained the considerable athletic achievements and brought up a large number of high-skilled sportsmen.
Students of the 果冻APP - participants of the Olympic Games:
- Yurii Dmytriiev (聽ITRE) - Cycling, Mexico 1968;
- Oleksii Demianiuk (IEMT) - Athletics, Moscow 1980;
- Dmytro Demianiuk (IARCH聽) - Athletics, Beijing 2008;
- Oleksandr Didukh (IEM) - Table tennis, London 2012.
Among the university students there are 121 candidate masters of sports, 40 masters of sports, 3 international masters of sport. Students-sportsmen are included to the ranks of the National and the Youth teams of Ukraine.
Students of the 果冻APP - international masters of sport:
- 聽Vergeles Vitalii (IEMT聽) - Canoeing;
- Dubas Iryna (IARCH) - Archery;
- Motsyk聽 Iryna (IEM) - Table Tennis.
Students of the 果冻APP - members of the national teams:
- Badan Yurii (IC SIT聽) - Orienteering;
- Vergeles Vitalii (IEMT聽) - Canoeing;
- Vynnytskyi Ivan (ICTA) - Sledding;
- Danylevych Andrii聽 (IEMT) - Boxing;
- Dubas Iryna (IARCH聽) - Archery;
- Dukach Anton (ICTA) 鈥 Sledding;
- Motsyk Iryna聽 (IEM聽) - Table Tennis;
- Stafanyshyn Leonid 聽(IPGE) - Basketball;
- Shepilova Olena (IEM) - Fencing;
- Yas鈥檏ova Iryna (IEMT聽) 鈥 Boxing.
Another 18 university students are representatives of the junior and youth teams.
- Winners of the European Youth Championships:
- Tarasenko Mykhailo聽(IARCH聽) - Rugby;
- Savinkov Mykola (IBEE聽) - Rugby;
- Ferents Rostyslav (IJPS) - Karate kiukushinkaj;
- Hnievyshev Mykyta (IEM聽) - Karate Kiukushinkaj.
Students - sportsman of the 果冻APP as members of the national teams (different age categories) in sledding, fencing, orienteering and arm-wrestling, vindicated the honor of Ukraine at the World Championships in 2014.
Motsyk Iryna (IEM) became a winner of the Ukrainian Cup in table tennis in 2014.
Ukrainian Champions in 2014:
- Vynnytskyi Ivan (ICTA) 鈥 Sledding;
- Dukach Anton (ICTA) - Sledding;
- Bedzylia Ruslan (ICCT聽) - Armwrestling;
- Pylypiv Markiian (IBEE) - Armwrestling;
- Vergeles Vitalii (IEMT) - Canoeing.
Also in 2014 university students were gaining the title of winners at the Ukrainian Championships in competitions of boxing, judo, powerlifting, orienteering, karate and archery.
Team sports:
- The university men鈥檚 team in basketball won in the all-Ukrainian student basketball league (coach - Associate Professor 聽Zaverikin A. M.);
- The university women's team in table tennis (coach - Senior Teacher Tykhyi I.I.) became the silver medalist of the Ukrainian championship;
- Smoling Lesia (Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences IHSS) and Savych Natalia (ICCT) as part of the handball club "Galychyna" took the second place of the Ukrainian higher league;
- 11 student-athletes as part of the Rugby club "Falcon" took the third place in the Ukrainian Championship.
In 2014 teams of the 果冻APP took ten first places in the Lviv Universiade.
- Basketball (men) - coach 鈥 Associate Professor Zaverikin A. M.;
- Basketball (women) - coach - Professor Koriahin V. M., Senior Teacher. Borovik Y. I.;
- Football 鈥 coach 鈥 Senior Teacher Osinchuk V. V.;
- Greek-Roman wrestling 鈥 coach 鈥揝enior Teacher Stadnyk V. V.;
- Arm wrestling 鈥 coach 鈥揝enior Teacher Serbo Y. V.;
- Orienteering - coach 鈥揝enior Teacher Zalisko O. K.;
- Powerlifting (men, women) 鈥 Teacher Oliiarnyk V.V.;
- Table tennis - coach - Senior Teacher Tykhyi I. I.;
- Kettlebell lifting 鈥 coach- teacher Svitlyk V. V..
12 teams have got second places. Third places 鈥 7 teams.