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Twotime European weightlifting champion Oleksandr Pielieshenko died on the entrance line within the battle in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Olympic Committee mentioned on Monday.
KYIV, Ukraine: Two-time European weightlifting champion Oleksandr Pielieshenko died on the entrance line within the battle in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Olympic Committee mentioned on Monday.
Pielieshenko “died within the battle with the enemy” on Sunday, the committee posted on Telegram. He was 30.
He joined Ukraine’s armed forces within the first days of Russia’s invasion, the committee added.
Pielieshenko got here again from a doping suspension in 2013-15 to win the 2016 European under-85 kilogram division by one kilogram. He efficiently retained the title in 2017 in Cut up.
Pielieshenko missed out on an Olympic medal by 5 kilograms on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Video games, the place he positioned fourth. He dedicated a second doping violation in 2018.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that we announce that at this time the guts of the honored grasp of sports activities of Ukraine, two-time European weightlifting champion Oleksandr Pielieshenko, stopped beating,” the Ukrainian weightlifting federation mentioned on Fb.
Nationwide coach Viktor Slobodianiuk added on Fb, “Battle takes the very best of us.. It is a very heavy loss for the complete weightlifting neighborhood of Ukraine. Heroes don’t die.”
Greater than 400 Ukrainian athletes and officers have been killed within the battle.
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