Deniz Nazar
Personal information | |
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Full name | Dmytro Valeriyovych Nazarenko |
National team | Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü (TUR) |
Coach | Oleksandr Yaremenko (UKR) |
Dmytro Valeriyovych Nazarenko (also Deniz Nazar, Ukrainian: Дмитро Валерійович Назаренко; born August 19, 1980) is a Ukrainian-born Turkish former swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events.[1] He is a fifth-place finalist in the 400 m individual medley at the 2002 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Riesa, Germany (4:12.07).[2]
Nazar made his first Ukrainian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Swimming in heat three of the men's 400 m individual medley, he edged out Slovenia's Marko Milenkovič to take a fifth seed and twenty-eighth overall by a 1.36-second margin in 4:25.26.[3]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Nazar placed twenty-sixth overall in the 400 m individual medley. Swimming in heat four on the morning prelims, Nazar saved a seventh spot and twenty-sixth overall against China's Liu Weijia, who finished behind him by less than 0.13 of a second, with a time of 4:26.15.[4][5]
Eight years later, Nazar had approved a nationality transfer by
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Deniz Nazar". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
- Swimming World Magazine. 13 December 2002. Archived from the originalon 11 April 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
- ) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
- Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the originalon 5 November 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ^ ""Yeni Türkler" Pekin"de madalya arayacak" ["New Turks" at Beijing in the search for medals] (in Turkish). Radikal. 31 July 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
- Swimming World Magazine. p. 43. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- NBC Olympics. Archived from the originalon 17 May 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
External links
- NBC Olympics Profile
- Profile – Swim Ukraine (in Ukrainian)