Oleksiy_Sereda
Oleksiy Sereda
Ukrainian diver (born 2005)
Oleksiy Viktorovych Sereda (Ukrainian: Олексій Вікторович Середа; born 25 December 2005) is a Ukrainian diver.[1] He is the 2019 European champion in the 10 metre platform event.
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| Native name | Олексій Середа | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Oleksiy Viktorovych Sereda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship | Ukrainian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (2005-12-25) 25 December 2005 (age 18) Mykolaiv, Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Diving | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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) dives on 10m platform.[2] As a result, he qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in individual competitions.[3]
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.[4][5] He also won a silver medal with his partner Oleh Serbin in synchronized diving. At the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo he finished 6th in the 10 metre platform event.
The 2022 European Aquatics Championships was a success for 16-year-old Sereda. He won a gold medal in the 10 metre platform with a significant gap over runner-up British diver Noah Williams, a silver medal together with 15-year-old Kirill Boliukh in the 10 metre synchro platform and a silver together with Sofiya Lyskun in the mixed 10 metre synchro platform.[6]
- "FINA World Championships 2019: As it happened: Day 9". Olympic Channel. Olympic Channel. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
- "Tom Daley record broken by 13-year-old Oleksii Sereda". BBC Sport. 12 August 2019.
- "Oleksii Sereda: 'Care needed' with diving champion, 13, after 'crazy' reaction to Euro gold". BBC Sport. 13 August 2019.
- "Maturing Further: The Oleksiy Sereda Story". LEN. 4 May 2023.
- Oleksii Sereda at World Aquatics
- Oleksii Sereda at IAT Database Diving (in German)
- Oleksii Sereda at Olympics.com
- Oleksii Sereda at Olympedia
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