| Demir Atasoy | |
| Fullname: | Dmytro Cherkasov |
| Strokes: | Breaststroke |
| Club: | Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü |
| Birth Date: | 26 May 1987 |
| Birth Place: | Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR |
| Weight: | 850NaN0 |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
| Updated: | October 11, 2013 |
Demir Atasoy (also Dmitry Cherkasov, born May 26, 1987, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian-born Turkish swimmer, who specialized in the breaststroke events.[1] Laureate of the National Rating «Top 100 Outstanding Men of Kyiv Region».[2]
Atasoy qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard time of 1:02.43 from the Croatian Open Championships in Dubrovnik.[3] He challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including three-time Olympian Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson of Iceland. Atasoy edged out Serbia's Čaba Silađi to take the second spot by six hundredths of a second (0.06), posting his lifetime best of 1:02.25.[4] Atasoy failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-ninth overall on the first night of preliminaries.[5]
At the 2013 Mediterranean Games held in Mersin, Turkey, he won the bronze medal in the men's 4 × 100 m medley relay.
He won four gold medals and one silver medal at the 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Palembang, Indonesia.
| 2013 | Mersin, Turkey | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | 4 × 100 m medley | ||
| Palembang, Indonesia | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 50 m breaststroke | 28.21 | ||
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | 100 m breaststroke | 1:02.27 | |||
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | 3:24.77 | |||
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | 4 × 100 m medley relay | 3:44.20 | |||
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | 7:32.20 |