Oleksandr Ivanovych Zaskalko ( uk, Олександр Іванович Заскалько; born 15 April 1967 in

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) is a Ukrainian rower. He competed in the

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and

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Olympics.

Biography

Oleksandr Zaskalko was born in

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, where he began to engage in academic rowing during his school years. During his military service, he was a member of the local ASC(Army Sports Club). At the

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, Zaskalko, as part of the Soviet team, finished fourth among quad sculls. After the

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of the Soviet Union, he performed under the flag of Ukraine. In

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and

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, he took silver in quad sculls at the World Championships. In 1995, he was fourth in the quad sculls' competition. At the

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, he took seventh place as part of the quad sculls' team (including Leonid Shaposhnikov, Mykola Chupryna, Oleksandr Zaskalko and Oleksandr Marchenko). During 1997–2000, performing as a part of quad scull(including Leonid Shaposhnikov, Oleg Lykov, Oleksandr Zaskalko and Oleksandr Marchenko), Zaskalko was the winner and multiple-time medalist of the World Cup stages: he took bronze medal at the 1997 World Championship, and silver at the 1999 World Championship. At the

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, Zaskalko's team became sixth among the double sculls. Since then, Zaskalko quit professional sport and started coaching.

References

* * 1967 births Living people Ukrainian male rowers Sportspeople from Dnipro Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers for the Soviet Union Olympic rowers for Ukraine World Rowing Championships medalists for Ukraine Soviet male rowers {{Ukraine-rowing-bio-stub