Pavlo Khnykin (born April 5, 1969) is a retired freestyle

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from

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. He was born in Sverdlovsk,

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. He competed in four consecutive

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, starting in 1992 for the Unified Team. He won the silver medal in the men's 4×100 m freestyle relay at the

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, alongside

Gennadiy Prigoda Gennadiy Sergeyevich Prigoda (; born 2 May 1965) is a former freestyle swimmer from Russia, who competed twice at the Summer Olympics first for the Soviet Union in 1988, and then for the Unified Team in 1992. The sprinter won four Olympic me ...

, Yury Bashkatov and Alexander Popov.

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