The first athlete who won the gold medal for the yellow-blues was Oksana Baiul.

However, for the first time the Ukrainian national flag and the Ukrainian state anthem sounded in 1992 when Oleg Kutscherenko from Luhansk Oblast won his gold medal in Barcelona as part of the so-called "Unified Team" of ex-Soviet republics.

[1] Previously, athletes of modern Ukraine mostly competed as part of the Russian Empire (1900–1912) and the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1988, and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian athletes were part of the Unified Team in 1992.

Tatiana Gutsu became the best athlete of the Unified Team in 1992 from independent Ukraine.

Gymnastics at summer and biathlon at winter are the nation's top medal-producing sports.