Dmytro Valeriyovych Nazarenko (also ''Deniz Nazar'', uk, Дмитро Валерійович Назаренко; born August 19, 1980) is a Ukrainian-born Turkish former swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events. He is a fifth-place finalist in the 400 m individual medley at the

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(4:12.07). Nazar made his first Ukrainian team at the

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. Swimming in heat three of the men's 400 m individual medley, he edged out Slovenia's

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to take a fifth seed and twenty-eighth overall by a 1.36-second margin in 4:25.26. At the

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, Nazar placed twenty-sixth overall in the 400 m individual medley. Swimming in heat four on the morning prelims, Nazar saved a seventh spot and twenty-sixth overall against China's Liu Weijia, who finished behind him by less than 0.13 of a second, with a time of 4:26.15. Eight years later, Nazar had approved a nationality transfer by

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to compete for the Turkish team at the

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, under a new name ''Deniz Nazar''. He achieved a FINA B-standard entry time of 4:26.64 from the Croatian Open Championships in

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. For his third time in the 400 m individual medley, Nazar challenged five other swimmers in heat one, including two-time Olympians

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of Kyrgyzstan and

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of Andorra. He touched out Haciane to take a fourth spot by a 1.20-second margin with a time of 4:30.80. Nazar failed to qualify for the final, as he placed twenty-eighth overall on the first night of preliminaries.

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NBC Olympics ProfileProfile – Swim Ukraine
1980 births Living people Turkish male medley swimmers Ukrainian male medley swimmers Olympic swimmers for Turkey Olympic swimmers for Ukraine Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Fenerbahçe swimmers Sportspeople from Rivne Ukrainian emigrants to Turkey Turkish people of Ukrainian descent {{Turkey-swimming-bio-stub