Vasyl Lomachenko

Vasyl Lomachenko is the boxer who most makes me lean toward the screen. At just 170 cm he collected world titles from featherweight up to lightweight, and his footwork is closer to dance than combat. The angles, the unseen punches, the way he seems to play chess while throwing leather, it is artistry under pressure. That he also served as a soldier and earned Ukraine's Orders of Merit only deepens my respect. I am stingy with the word genius, but here it fits without apology. His short pro run, 2013 to 2024, distilled a purity of craft that boxing will recount for a long time.

Name (English)

Vasyl Lomachenko

Name (Japanese)

ワシル・ロマチェンコ

Reading

わしる・ろまちぇんこ

Born

February 17, 1988 (age 38)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dragon

Origin

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Bessarabia Governorate, Ukraine

Height

170 cm

Occupation

boxer / soldier / film actor

University

The State Institution "South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky"

Awards & achievements

• Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
• Order of Merit (Ukraine), 2nd class
• Order of Merit, 1st class
• WBO World Lightweight Champion
• WBO World Junior Lightweight Champion
• WBO World Featherweight Champion
• WBC World Lightweight Champion
• IBF World Lightweight Champion

• Official sitehttp://lomachenko.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/lomachenkovasiliy/
• Xhttps://x.com/vasyllomachenko
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasiliy%20Lomachenko
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%9E%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1402369

Tags

• Bessarabia Governorate
• boxer
• soldier
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.