Dmytro Aleksyeyev (Ukrainian: Дмитро Алексєєв) is a

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from

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competing mainly in category S13 events. Dmytro was part of the Ukrainian Paralympic games swimming team on two occasions, firstly in

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then again in

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winning a total of seven medals including four golds. All his golds came in 2004 where he won the 50m freestyle in a new world record, the 100m breaststroke and being part of both the 4 × 100 m freestyle and medley teams that broke world records, he also finished second behind Belarusian Raman Makarau in the 100m freestyle and finished fourth in the 100m backstroke. In the 2008 games he finished third in both the 100m backstroke and 200m individual medley and finished sixth in the 50m freestyle, eighth in the 100m freestyle and failed to make the 100m butterfly final having finished fifth in his heat.

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