Nationality Ukraine Name Yuriy Shlyakhov Sport Diving Height 1.74 m | Event(s) Springboard Weight 73 kg Club Ukraina Dnipropetrovsk | |
Full name Yuriy Viktorovych Shlyakhov Born 27 May 1983 (age 40) ( 1983-05-27 ) Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR | ||
Yuriy Viktorovych Shlyakhov (Ukrainian: Юрій Вікторович Шляхов; born May 27, 1983 in Dnipropetrovsk) is a Ukrainian springboard diver. He won a bronze medal for the men's individual springboard at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand.
Career
Shlyakhov made his official debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed twenty-sixth in the men's springboard event, with a total score of 377.19 points.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Shlyakhov scored a total of 405.15 points, with a spectacular performance in the 3 m individual springboard event. He placed twenty-third out of twenty-nine divers in the preliminary competition, failing to advance into the semi-finals.
References
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