Roman Volodymyrovych Hontyuk (Ukrainian: Роман Володимирович Гонтюк), also spelled Roman Gontyuk, (born 2 February 1984[1]) is an olympic medalist from Ukraine.

He won a silver medal in the half-middleweight (‍–‍81 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics and bronze medal in the half-middleweight (‍–‍81 kg) division at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Making his way through the competition, he defeated Reza Chahkhandagh of Iran and world champion Florian Wanner.

In the semifinals against Robert Krawczyk of Poland, Roman won by ippon with only 5 seconds left in the match and headed to the final.

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