Dmitrij Gerasimenko Explained

Dmitrij Gerasimenko
Birth Place:Zlatoust, Soviet Union
Height:1.85m (06.07feet)
Weight:900NaN0
Sport:Judo
Sambo
Club:Crvena Zvezda, Belgrade

Dmitrij Gerasimenko (Serbian: Дмитриј Герасименко, Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Герасименко; born 1 October 1987 in Zlatoust, Soviet Union) is a Serbian judoka and sambo competitor of Russian origin.[1]

Career

He won 2 medals at the 2009 Summer Universiade for Russia.

In 2011, he changed nationality and started to compete for Serbia.[2] He won several medals for Serbia in international competitions. At the 2012 European Judo Championships he won 7th place and secured participation at the 2012 Olympic Games. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the -90 kg category, beating Roméo Koné Kinapéya in the first round before losing to eventual silver medalist Asley González in the second.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Džudista Gerasimenko dobio državljanstvo Srbije . nadlanu.com . sr . 16 August 2011.
  2. Dmitrj Gerasimenko . https://web.archive.org/web/20161203053829/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ge/dmitrj-gerasimenko-1.html . dead . 3 December 2016 . 2 May 2017.