Pavlo Khnykin (born April 5, 1969) is a retired
freestyle
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swimmer
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from
Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia ( ; uk, Вінниця, ; yi, װיניצע) is a city in west-central Ukraine, located on the banks of the Southern Bug.
It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast and the largest city in the historic region of Podillia. A ...
,
Ukraine
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. He was born in
Sverdlovsk,
Russian SFSR
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.
He competed in four consecutive
Summer Olympics
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, starting in 1992 for the Unified Team. He won the silver medal in the men's 4×100 m freestyle relay at the
1992 Summer Olympics
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, alongside
Gennadiy Prigoda
Gennadiy Sergeyevich Prigoda (russian: Геннадий Серге́евич Пригода; born 2 May 1965) is a former freestyle swimmer from Russia, who competed twice at the Summer Olympics first for the Soviet Union in 1988, and then for ...
,
Yury Bashkatov and
Alexander Popov.
References
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1969 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Yekaterinburg
Soviet male swimmers
Ukrainian male swimmers
Olympic swimmers of the Unified Team
Olympic swimmers of Ukraine
Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the Unified Team
Ukrainian male freestyle swimmers
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Sportspeople from Vinnytsia
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists in swimming
Universiade medalists in swimming
Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine
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