Oleg Lyashko ( uz, Олег Ляшко; born October 13, 1982) is an Uzbek former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. Lyashko qualified for the men's 100 m butterfly at 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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, by posting a FINA B-standard of 56.08 from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in

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. He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including 17-year-old

Michal Rubáček Michal Rubáček (born 19 December 1986) is a Czech swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. He is a two-time Olympian, and a multiple-time Czech national record holder for the butterfly events (50, 100, and 200 m). Rubacek made his first C ...

of the Czech Republic. He raced to second place by a 1.03-second margin behind winner Rubacek in a personal best of 55.90. Lyashko failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-sixth overall in the preliminaries.

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
1982 births Living people Swimmers from Tashkent Uzbekistani male butterfly swimmers Olympic swimmers for Uzbekistan Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Uzbekistan 21st-century Uzbekistani sportspeople {{Uzbekistan-swimming-bio-stub