Artem Honcharenko ( uk, Артем Гончаренко; born March 21, 1979) is a Ukrainian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and in individual medley events. Honcharenko competed in three swimming events at the

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. He eclipsed a

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B-cut of 2:04.30 (200 m individual medley) from the Belarus Championships in

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. On the first day of the Games, Honcharenko teamed up with

Vyacheslav Shyrshov Vyacheslav ("Slava") Viktorovych Shyrshov ( uk, В'ячеслав Вікторович Ширшов) (born 9 July 1979) is a freestyle swimming, freestyle swimmer from Ukraine, who won the gold medal in the men's 50 metres freestyle event at the ...

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, and the late

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in the 4×100 m freestyle relay. Honcharenko swam the third leg in heat three and recorded a split of 49.98, but the Ukrainians settled only for fourth place and twelfth overall with a final time of 3:21.48. Three days later, Honcharenko, along with Svanidze,

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, and

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, placed fourteenth in the 4×200 m freestyle relay with a time of 7:32.16. In his final event, 200 m individual medley, Honcharenko placed thirty-first on the morning prelims. Swimming in heat four, he pulled off a fifth-place effort with a much faster freestyle leg in 2:05.98, a 1.68-second deficit off his entry time.

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1979 births Living people Ukrainian male swimmers Olympic swimmers for Ukraine Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Ukrainian male freestyle swimmers Male medley swimmers Sportspeople from Kharkiv 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-swimming-bio-stub