Dmytro Valeriyovych Mikhay ( uk, Дмитро Валерійович Міхай; born 27 February 1990) is a Ukrainian

rower Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using oarlocks, while paddles are not connected to the boat. Rowing is ...

. He won the gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the

2014 World Rowing Championships The 2014 World Rowing Championships were the 44th edition of the World Rowing Championships and were held from 24 to 31 August 2014 at Bosbaan, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the second occasion on which the event had been held in Amsterdam, or ...

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, with what is still a world's fastest time as of September 2018. He competed in the

double sculls A double scull is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two persons who propel the boat by sculling with two oars each, one in each hand. Racing boats (often called "shells") are long, narrow, and broadly ...

at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

with

Artem Morozov Artem Mykolaiovych Morozov ( uk, Артем Миколайович Морозов; born 29 February 1980) is a Ukrainian rower. He competed in the double sculls at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2014 ...

. He won the gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the

with Morozov, Oleksandr Nadtoka and Ivan Dovhodko. The team also won the European Championships that year. The team of Mikhay, Morozov, Nadtoka and Dovhodko won the silver medal at the 2015 European Championships. He competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in the men's quadruple sculls with Morozov, Oleksandr Nadtoka and Ivan Dovhodko. In 2018, Mikhay, alongside Sergii Gryn, Nadtoka and Dovhodko won the bronze medal in the men's quadruple sculls at the World Championships. Following the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

, Mikhay and his wife Dasha escaped to England, where they are living with the family of his friend, former rower Jack Beaumont, in

Nettlebed Nettlebed is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire in the Chiltern Hills about northwest of Henley-on-Thames and southeast of Wallingford. The parish includes the hamlet of Crocker End, about east of the village. The 2011 Census recor ...

, near

Henley-on-Thames Henley-on-Thames ( ) is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead, southeast of Oxford and west of London (by road), near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buc ...

in Oxfordshire.

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* * 1990 births Living people Ukrainian male rowers Sportspeople from Kherson Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers of Ukraine World Rowing Championships medalists for Ukraine Universiade silver medalists for Ukraine Universiade medalists in rowing Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade Recipients of the Order of Danylo Halytsky {{Ukraine-rowing-bio-stub