| Aleksey Dyachenko | |
| Birth Date: | 11 November 1978 |
| Birth Place: | St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Weapon: | sabre |
| Hand: | right-handed |
| Height: | 1.8m (05.9feet) |
| Weight: | 78kg (172lb) |
| Retired: | 2007 |
| Fieranking: | current ranking |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Aleksey Vladimirovich Dyachenko (a.k.a. Aleksei Diachenko; Russian: Алексе́й Влади́мирович Дьяче́нко; born 11 November 1978) is a Russian former sabre fencer and a commercial pilot in the United States.
He is the son of fencing coaches Vladimir and Natalya Dyachenko. His sister Yekaterina was a world champion sabre fencer.
Dyachenko took part in the team sabre event for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as a reserve of the Russia team, which won a gold medal. He qualified as a full member of the team to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In the individual event, he lost in the first round to Ukraine's Volodymyr Kaliuzhniy.[1] In the team event, Russia overcame Greece, but fell to Italy in the semifinals. They defeated the United States by a single hit to win the bronze medal. Dyatchenko only participated in the quarter-final.
Dyachenko is also a three-time world champion with the Russian team.
In 2013, he began training in the United States to obtain a commercial pilot license. Upon completion of training, he flew as first officer and pilot in command on the Pilatus PC-12 aircraft in Tradewind Aviation and ExpressJet Airlines. Since October 2020, he has been flying as a co-pilot on the Embraer ERJ 145 aircraft in the CommutAir company. Upon reaching the flight time of 5,000 hours, he is going to work for a large passenger airline.[2] [3]