Yevhen Hlyva

Yevhen Hlyva, born on 10 November 1983, is a Ukrainian ultra-distance and mountain runner from Sumy who now lives in Castiglione del Lago in Italy. A trainer of young athletes, he started running long distances in 2010, when he finished fourth at the 100 km del Passatore, and his career took off in 2014 with victory at the Strasimeno ultramarathon and podium places at the Wings for Life World Run and the Oman desert marathon. In 2015 he won the Swiss Alpine Marathon and the Kyiv Marathon, and in 2016 he won the Strasimeno with a race record and the Wings for Life World Run in Austria. After a break for an operation on his Achilles tendon in 2017 he won the Al Marmoon ultramarathon in 2018, restarted running after moving to Italy in 2023, and won the Strasimeno again in 2024.