Sergey Fesenko Jr. (also spelled as Sergiy or Serhiy, born June 5, 1982) is a long-distance
freestyle swimmer from
Ukraine
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. He competed in the
2000 Olympic Games in
Sydney, Australia,
2004 Olympic Games
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in
Athens, Greece and qualified to represent his country at the
2008 Olympic Games in
Beijing, China. His father,
Sergey Fesenko, Sr., won the gold medal in the 200m butterfly at the
1980 Olympic Games in
Moscow
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.
Fesenko is a citizen of the United States and resided in
Indiana
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. He has a Masters (from IU) in Economic Sciences. He served in the Ukrainian military in an Air Defense unit but did not see combat.
Titles
Fina World Cup
* Berlin 2003: 400m freestyle
* New York 2004: 1500m freestyle
* New York 2004: 400m freestyle
External links
Profile on Indiana University-website*
1982 births
Living people
Ukrainian male freestyle swimmers
Ukrainian male swimmers
Male long-distance swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Ukraine
Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Universiade medalists in swimming
Universiade silver medalists for Ukraine
Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine
Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade
Swimmers from Kyiv
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