Oleksandr Sydorenko

Oleksandr Sydorenko (27 May 1960 – 20 February 2022), also known as Aleksandr Sidorenko, was an individual medley swimmer from the USSR. He won the 400 m individual medley at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.^[1]

Oleksandr Sydorenko

Sydorenko in 2008
Personal information
Full name	Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Sydorenko
Nationality	Ukrainian
Born	(1960-05-27)27 May 1960 Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Died	20 February 2022(2022-02-20) (aged 61) Mariupol, Ukraine
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Spouse	Yelena Kruglova ​ (m. 1982)​
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Individual medley
Medal record Men's swimming Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1980 Moscow 400 m medley World Championships (LC) 1982 Guayaquil 200 m medley 1978 Berlin 200 m medley European Championships (LC) 1981 Split 200 m medley 1977 Jönköping 200 m medley Summer Universiade 1983 Edmonton 200 m medley Friendship Games 1984 Moscow 200 metre individual medley

Sydorenko at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Career

Sydorenko won a gold medal at the 1981 European Aquatics Championships in Split, and at the 1982 World Aquatics Championships in Guayaquil in the 200-metre individual medley.^[2]

At the 1983 Summer Universiade in Edmonton, he won a silver medal in the 200-metre individual medley.^[3] Between 1977 and 1986 he became the USSR champion 20 times.

Sydorenko won the 400 m individual medley at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.^[4]

He worked from 1987 to 2014 as the manager of the water polo team "Ilyichevets". After retirement he worked as a volunteer in the water Polo Federation of the city of Mariupol.

Personal life and death

Sydorenko married the bronze medal-winner of the 1980 Olympic Games, Yelena Kruglova, in 1982. Sydorenko was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples (USSR).

Oleksandr Sydorenko died from COVID-19^[5] in Mariupol on 20 February 2022, at the age of 61.^[6]

See also

• World record progression 200 metres medley