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Yuriy Shlyakhov | |
Fullname: | Yuriy Viktorovych Shlyakhov |
Birth Date: | 27 May 1983 |
Birth Place: | Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Death Place: | Dnipro, Ukraine |
Weight: | 730NaN0 |
Sport: | Diving |
Event: | Springboard |
Club: | Ukraïna Dnipropetrovsk |
Medaltemplates: | [1] |
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Yuriy Viktorovych Shlyakhov (Ukrainian: Юрій Вікторович Шляхов; 27 May 1983 - 23 July 2019[2]) was a Ukrainian springboard diver.[3] He won a bronze medal for the men's individual springboard at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand.[4]
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.[5]