Denys Olehovych Sylantyev (; born 3 October 1976) is a Ukrainian politician and retired swimmer. He competed at four consecutive Olympics between 1996 and 2008 and who won a silver medal in the 200 m butterfly in 2000. At the next Olympics he was the flag bearer for Ukraine.
He won the
Mare Nostrum
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circuit three times: 2000, 2001 and 2002. In 1998 he was named European Swimmer of the Year.
Sylantyev retired from competitions shortly after the
2008 Olympics
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and focused on politics and development of sport in Ukraine.
In the
, Silantyev was a self-nominated candidate in constituency No.217 situated in
Kyiv
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Batkivshchyna
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who gained 31.75% of the votes while Silantyev gained 5.18% and fourth place.
In the 26 October
2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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Sylantyev was as a candidate (placed 8th on the party list) of Radical Party was elected into the
Ukrainian parliament
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. In the 2019 election he was placed 15th on the election list. But Radical Party lost all its parliamentary seats in the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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, because it gained about 1% to little to clear the 5% election threshold and also did not win an electoral district seat.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections
Ukrayinska Pravda
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(21 July 2019)
In the 2020 Kyiv local election (set for 25 October 2020) Sylantyev is a candidate for the
Kyiv City Council
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Civil movement "Chesno"
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Interfax-Ukraine
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