Vitaliy Oleksandovych Polyanskyi (Ukrainian: Віталій Олександрович Полянський; born 26 January 1981 in Dnipropetrovsk) is a Ukrainian judoka, who competed in the men's heavyweight category.^[1] He held two Ukrainian titles in both his own division and the open event, picked up a bronze medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, and represented his nation Ukraine at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

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Vitaliy Polyanksyy

Personal information
Full name	VITALIY POLYANSKYY
Nickname	SLON
Born	(1981-01-26) 26 January 1981 (age 43) Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Home town	Toronto, Canada
Occupation	Judoka
Height	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Sport
Country	Ukraine
Sport	Judo
Weight class	–100 kg, +100 kg
College team	Academy Customs of Ukraine
Club	TAIFU Dnipro, TAIFU Toronto
Coached by	Danil Volovich
Medal record Men's judo Representing  Ukraine European U23 Championships 2003 Yerevan +100 kg European Junior Championships 2000 Nicosia –100 kg Summer Universiade 2007 Bangkok Open
Profile at external databases
IJF	6054
JudoInside.com	11233
Updated on 17 February 2022.

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Polyanskyy was selected to the Ukrainian squad in the men's heavyweight class (+100 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, as a result of the nation's top nine finish in the European Judo Union ranking list. Polyanskyy opened his match with a brilliant ippon victory and an ōuchi gari (big inner reap) over Egypt's Islam El Shehaby, before he fell in his next bout with a waza-ari awasete ippon defeat to Italy's Paolo Bianchessi. With Bianchessi moving forward to the medal podium phase, Polyanskyy gave himself a chance for an Olympic bronze medal through the repechage round, but lost to South Korea's Kim Sung-bum by an ippon and a tani otoshi (valley drop) within a halfway time into their first playoff of the draft.^[2][3]