Two Ukrainian sporting results recalled from December 2018
A look back at a fencing World Cup title and a boxing unification bout in the days around 10 December 2018.
What did Ukrainian sport have to celebrate on 10 December 2018? The date brought a result for fencer Olha Kharlan, who won the overall standings of the 2017–2018 Sabre World Cup.
Two days earlier, on 8 December 2018, boxer Vasyl Lomachenko had beaten Jose Pedraza. The victory made him a unified lightweight world champion for the first time in his career, holding the WBA and WBO titles together.
Taken together, the two results gave Ukrainian sport a pair of notable achievements within a few days of each other: one in the individual discipline of sabre fencing, the other in professional boxing's lightweight division.
