Maksym Volodymyrovych Kagal (; 1 December 1991 – 25 March 2022) was a Ukrainian athlete-kickboxer and a soldier.

Career

Maskym Kagal was a world champion on the national team of Ukraine and bronze medalist in kickboxing according to ISKA 2014. He was a silver medalist of the open championship of Kremenchuk in rugby-7. Kagal was a bronze medalist in the K-1 section (weight category up to 60 kg).

Maksym Kagal

Death

He served in the Azov Battalion as a senior lieutenant under the call sign "Piston". On 25 March 2022, he was killed defending Mariupol from Russian forces. He was posthumously awarded Hero of Ukraine.

Maksym Kagal

References

1991 births

2022 deaths

Ukrainian male kickboxers

Sportspeople from Kremenchuk

Recipients of the title of Hero of Ukraine

Ukrainian military personnel killed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Ukrainian military personnel of the war in Donbas

Ukrainian military personnel killed in the Siege of Mariupol

21st-century Ukrainian people

Maksym Kagal