Aleksey Vladimirovich Dyachenko (a.k.a. Aleksei Diachenko; russian: Алексе́й Влади́мирович Дьяче́нко; born 11 November 1978) is a Russian former

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fencer and a

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in the United States.

Personal life

He is the son of fencing coaches Vladimir and Natalya Dyachenko. His sister Yekaterina was a world champion sabre fencer.

Sport career

Dyachenko took part in the team sabre event for the

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as a reserve of the Russia team, which won a gold medal. He qualified as a full member of the team to the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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. In the individual event, he lost in the first round to Ukraine's Volodymyr Kaliuzhniy. In the team event, Russia overcame Greece, but fell to Italy in the semifinals. They defeated the United States by a single hit to win the bronze medal. Dyatchenko only participated in the quarter-final. Dyachenko is also a three-time world champion with the Russian team.

Commercial pilot career

In 2013, he began training in the United States to obtain a

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. Upon completion of training, he flew as first officer and

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on the

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aircraft in

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and ExpressJet Airlines. Since October 2020, he has been flying as a co-pilot on the

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aircraft in the CommutAir company. Upon reaching the flight time of 5,000 hours, he is going to work for a large passenger airline.

References

External links

Profile
at the European Fencing Confederatiuon * Olympic.org.
Sabre Team Men
Results. Bronze Medals section. * NBC Sports.
Medal Winners - Fencing
Fencing — Men's Team Sabre (medals: August 19) 1978 births Living people Russian male sabre fencers Fencers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic fencers for Russia Olympic bronze medalists for Russia Olympic medalists in fencing Sportspeople from Saint Petersburg Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Commercial aviators {{Russia-fencing-bio-stub