Oleksandr Oleksiyovych Serdyuk ( uk, Олександр Олексійович Сердюк; born 3 July 1978) is an athlete from

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. He competes in

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2004 Summer Olympics

Serdyuk competed at the

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in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32. In the second round of elimination, he was again victorious and advanced to the round of 16. The third match was Serdyuk's downfall, as he lost to Hiroshi Yamamoto of

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. Serdyuk placed 15th overall. Serdyuk was also a member of the

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Ukrainian men's archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the

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, Serdyuk finished his ranking round with a total of 661 points, which gave him the 20th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Jens Pieper in the first round, beating the

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107-105. In the second round Serdyuk and his opponent

Rafał Dobrowolski Rafał Dobrowolski (born 27 December 1983 in Kielce) is an athlete from Poland, who competes in archery. 2008 Summer Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Dobrowolski finished his ranking round with a total of 667 points, which gave h ...

both scored 111 points in the regular match and had to go to an extra round. In this extra round Serdyuk scored 8 points, while Dobrowolski advanced to the third round with 9 points.Athlete biography: Oleksandr Serdyuk
, beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 17 2008 Together with

Markiyan Ivashko Markiyan Volodymyrovych Ivashko (Ukrainian: Маркіян Володимирович Івашко; born May 18, 1979) is a Ukrainian archer. 2008 Summer Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ivashko finished his r ...

and

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he also took part in the team event. With his 676 score from the ranking round combined with the 678 of Ruban and the 658 of Ivashko the Ukraine were in second position after the ranking round, which gave them a straight seed into the quarter-finals. With 214–211 they were too strong for the

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team, but in the semi-final they were eliminated by

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, 223–221. In the challenge for the bronze medal

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was too strong with 222–219.

References

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