Anna Sheremet defended her world champion title, while Polyansky won bronze at the World Paralympic Championships.

Here’s an edited and structured version. I’ve corrected the style, repeated sentences, and made the text a bit more dynamic. Ukrainian para-rower Anna Sheremet won the gold medal in the men’s singles at the 2026 World Championships. This is the first top award for the Ukrainian team at the tournament. Roman Polyanskyi also earned the Ukrainian team a medal, winning bronze in the men’s singles.

This was reported by “Public Sport”.

The 2026 World Rowing Championships continue with the participation of para-rowing crews. Ukraine’s first medal at the tournament was previously won by Darya Kotik and Stanislav Samoliuk, who took second place in the mixed double sculls.

On the penultimate day of the competition, the Ukrainian team’s medal tally was replenished with two more awards in the singles class.

Anna Sheremet won the final of the women’s PR1 single sculls. The Ukrainian finished almost 29 seconds ahead of Belgium’s Laurens Vandeweever.

The top three winners of the 2026 World Championship:

1. Anna Sheremet (Ukraine) – 09:48.91;
2. Laurens Vandeweyver (Belgium) – 10:17.77;
3. Claire Ghiringhelli (Switzerland) – 10:39.76.

Thus, Sheremet defended her title as the current world champion and also added the world championship gold to her title of the 2026 European champion.

In 2025, the Ukrainian also became World and European Champion. The 25-year-old athlete has won five European Championship medals: two gold, one silver, and two bronze.

In the men’s PR1 competition, Roman Polyanskiy took third place with a time of 09:01.38.

The winner was a representative of Great Britain, who covered the distance in 08:50.46, and the silver medal was received by an athlete from Australia with a result of 08:57.27.

Thus, the Ukrainian team continued to add to its medal tally at the World Rowing Championships.