Kirill Boliukh Explained

Kirill Boliukh
Native Name:Кірілл Сергійович Болюх
Full Name:Kirill Serhiiovych Boliukh
Citizenship:Ukrainian
Birth Date:12 March 2007
Country:Ukraine
Sport:Diving
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Kirill Boliukh (Кірілл Сергійович Болюх; born 12 March 2007) is a Ukrainian diver. He won two silver medals at the 2022 European Championships.[1]

Career

Boliukh made his Ukrainian national team debut in 2021, at the age of 14, when he competed at the Abu Dhabi Aquatics Festival.

At the World Championships in Budapest, he placed together with Oleksiy Sereda 4th in synchronized dives on 10m platform, more than 20 points behind bronze medallists Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray from Canada, though the Ukrainians were 2nd in the preliminary round.[2]

Boliukh won his first senior medals at the 2022 European Championships in Rome where he finished 2nd in both synchronized dives on 10m platform (together with Sereda) and team event (together with Baylo, Kesar, and Konovalov).

With Sereda, he finished 5th in the 10m synchro event at the 2024 Olympics.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Again very close to the gold: Sereda and Boliukh became silver medallists of the European Championships . xsport.com . . uk . 2022-08-28.
  2. Web site: Sereda and Boliukh narrowly missed a World Championships medal. Video of one of the Ukrainians' dives . tribuna.ua . Tribuna.ua . uk . 2022-08-28.
  3. Web site: Kirill BOLIUKH Results World Aquatics Official . 2024-07-29 . World Aquatics . en.