Oleksiy Viktorovych Sereda ( ua, Олексій Вікторович Середа; born 25 December 2005) is a Ukrainian diver. He is the 2019 European champion in the 10 metre platform event.

Career

Sereda made his Ukrainian national team debut in 2019, at the age of 13. At the World Championships he placed 4th in both individual and synchronized (with

Oleh Serbin Oleh Maksymovych Serbin ( ua, Олег Максимович Сербін; born 11 August 2001) is a Ukrainian diver. He is a 2019 European silver medalist in the 10m synchro event. Career Serbin made his Ukrainian national team debut in 201 ...

) dives on 10m platform. As a result, he qualified for the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

in individual competitions. Sereda became the youngest ever Europe champion on 11 August 2019, after winning gold in the individual 10 metre platform competition at the

2019 European Diving Championships The 2019 European Diving Championships were held in Kyiv, Ukraine from 5 to 11 August 2019. This was the sixth edition of the stand-alone European Diving Championships, Championships, and the 40th European Championships in diving in total, includi ...

. He also won a silver medal with his partner

in synchronized diving. At the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo he finished 6th in the Men's 10 metre platform event.

References

European champions for Ukraine Ukrainian male divers Living people 2005 births Sportspeople from Mykolaiv Divers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic divers of Ukraine World Aquatics Championships medalists in diving {{Ukraine-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub