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Full name | Yuriy Viktorovych Shlyakhov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | 27 May 1983|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 23 July 2019 Dnipro, Ukraine | (aged 36)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Diving | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Springboard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Ukraïna Dnipropetrovsk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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]