Oleksii Pashkov (born 6 January 1981) is a Ukrainian

track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

athlete who competes in disability athletics in the F36 category. Pashkov represented his country in the

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight (object), weight called a discus in an attempt to mark a further distance than other competitors. It is a ...

at the

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in London, where he won the silver medal with a distance of 38.89 metres.

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