The Department of Physical Education was established in 1944. For this time the department’s staff gained the considerable athletic achievements and brought up a large number of high-skilled sportsmen.
Students of the 91Ƶ - participants of the Olympic Games:
- Yurii Dmytriiev ( ITRE) - Cycling, Mexico 1968;
- Oleksii Demianiuk (IEMT) - Athletics, Moscow 1980;
- Dmytro Demianiuk (IARCH ) - Athletics, Beijing 2008;
- Oleksandr Didukh (IEM) - Table tennis, London 2012.
Among the university students there are 121 candidate masters of sports, 40 masters of sports, 3 international masters of sport. Students-sportsmen are included to the ranks of the National and the Youth teams of Ukraine.
Students of the 91Ƶ - international masters of sport:
- Vergeles Vitalii (IEMT ) - Canoeing;
- Dubas Iryna (IARCH) - Archery;
- Motsyk Iryna (IEM) - Table Tennis.
Students of the 91Ƶ - members of the national teams:
- Badan Yurii (IC SIT ) - Orienteering;
- Vergeles Vitalii (IEMT ) - Canoeing;
- Vynnytskyi Ivan (ICTA) - Sledding;
- Danylevych Andrii (IEMT) - Boxing;
- Dubas Iryna (IARCH ) - Archery;
- Dukach Anton (ICTA) – Sledding;
- Motsyk Iryna (IEM ) - Table Tennis;
- Stafanyshyn Leonid (IPGE) - Basketball;
- Shepilova Olena (IEM) - Fencing;
- Yas’kova Iryna (IEMT ) – Boxing.
Another 18 university students are representatives of the junior and youth teams.
- Winners of the European Youth Championships:
- Tarasenko Mykhailo (IARCH ) - Rugby;
- Savinkov Mykola (IBEE ) - Rugby;
- Ferents Rostyslav (IJPS) - Karate kiukushinkaj;
- Hnievyshev Mykyta (IEM ) - Karate Kiukushinkaj.
Students - sportsman of the 91Ƶ as members of the national teams (different age categories) in sledding, fencing, orienteering and arm-wrestling, vindicated the honor of Ukraine at the World Championships in 2014.
Motsyk Iryna (IEM) became a winner of the Ukrainian Cup in table tennis in 2014.
Ukrainian Champions in 2014:
- Vynnytskyi Ivan (ICTA) – Sledding;
- Dukach Anton (ICTA) - Sledding;
- Bedzylia Ruslan (ICCT ) - Armwrestling;
- Pylypiv Markiian (IBEE) - Armwrestling;
- Vergeles Vitalii (IEMT) - Canoeing.
Also in 2014 university students were gaining the title of winners at the Ukrainian Championships in competitions of boxing, judo, powerlifting, orienteering, karate and archery.
Team sports:
- The university men’s team in basketball won in the all-Ukrainian student basketball league (coach - Associate Professor Zaverikin A. M.);
- The university women's team in table tennis (coach - Senior Teacher Tykhyi I.I.) became the silver medalist of the Ukrainian championship;
- Smoling Lesia (Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences IHSS) and Savych Natalia (ICCT) as part of the handball club "Galychyna" took the second place of the Ukrainian higher league;
- 11 student-athletes as part of the Rugby club "Falcon" took the third place in the Ukrainian Championship.
In 2014 teams of the 91Ƶ took ten first places in the Lviv Universiade.
- Basketball (men) - coach – Associate Professor Zaverikin A. M.;
- Basketball (women) - coach - Professor Koriahin V. M., Senior Teacher. Borovik Y. I.;
- Football – coach – Senior Teacher Osinchuk V. V.;
- Greek-Roman wrestling – coach –Senior Teacher Stadnyk V. V.;
- Arm wrestling – coach –Senior Teacher Serbo Y. V.;
- Orienteering - coach –Senior Teacher Zalisko O. K.;
- Powerlifting (men, women) – Teacher Oliiarnyk V.V.;
- Table tennis - coach - Senior Teacher Tykhyi I. I.;
- Kettlebell lifting – coach- teacher Svitlyk V. V..
12 teams have got second places. Third places – 7 teams.