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Nationality
  
Ukraine

Name
  
Denys Sylantyev

Sport
  
Swimming

Role
  
Swimmer


Strokes
  
Butterfly

Height
  
1.85 m

Olympic Games
  
0

Weight
  
78 kg

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Full name
  
Denys Olegovich Sylantyev

Born
  
3 October 1976 (age 47) (
1976-10-03
)
Zaporizhia, Zaporizhia, Ukraine

Club
  
Spartak, Zaporozhye Spartak Kyiv

Olympic medals
  
Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

1998 World Swimming Championships - Mens 200m Fly


Denys Olegovich Sylantyev (Ukrainian: Денис Олегович Силантьєв; born 3 October 1976) is a Ukrainian politician and retired swimmer. He competed at four consecutive Olympics between 1996 and 2008 and who won a silver medal in the 200 m butterfly in 2000. At the next Olympics he was the flag bearer for Ukraine.

He won the Mare Nostrum circuit three times: 2000, 2001 and 2002. In 1998 he was named European Swimmer of the Year.

Sylantyev retired from competitions shortly after the 2008 Olympics and focused on politics and development of sport in Ukraine. In the 26 October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Sylantyev was as a candidate (placed 8th on the party list) of Radical Party was elected into the Ukrainian parliament.

References

Denys Sylantyev Wikipedia