Illya Olehovych Kvasha ( uk, Ілля Олегович Кваша; born 5 March 1988) is a Ukrainian diver. Competing with

Oleksiy Prygorov Oleksiy Pryhorov ( uk, Олексій Вікторович Пригоров; born June 25, 1987 in Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian diver who won the bronze medal in the 3 m spring synchro along with Illya Kvasha in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. T ...

, he won the bronze medal in the 3 m spring synchro at the

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. Kvasha is also a multiple European champion both individual and synchronised.

Career

He also competed 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 ...

, in both the individual and the synchro with Prygorov. At the

2016 Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro ...

, he reached the final of the individual 3 m springboard. He specializes in 1m and 3m springboard. He is twice silver medalist of the

World Championships A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

in 1m competition and once bronze medalist in 3m synchro event which was his greatest success in a synchro competition since Olympic bronze. Kvasha is one of the most famous and popular modern Ukrainian athletes. He was also thrice awarded The Best Sportsman of the Month by the NOC of Ukraine: in March 2008, April 2009, and June 2017.Ілля Кваша – найкращий спортсмен червня в Україні!

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, July 3, 2017

References

External links

Illya Kvasha's profile at ESPN SportsBeijing 2008 Profile
1983 births Living people Olympic bronze medalists for Ukraine Ukrainian male divers Divers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Divers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Divers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic divers for Ukraine Sportspeople from Mykolaiv Olympic medalists in diving Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics World Aquatics Championships medalists in diving European Aquatics Championships medalists in diving Universiade medalists in diving Universiade silver medalists for Ukraine Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade 20th-century Ukrainian people 21st-century Ukrainian people {{Ukraine-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub