Yevgen Sotnikov (; 20 November 1980 – 6 August 2021) was a Ukrainian
judoka
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. Sotnikov competed at the
2008 Olympic Games
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, where he was knocked out after one match.
Sotnikov was sentenced to 15 years for murder in 2009 for shooting an 18-year-old in the head for refusing to drink alcohol with him.
Sotnikov was killed on 6 August 2021, alongside two other prisoners, while serving his jail term. He was aged 40.
According to Trilateral Contact Group member Haide Rizayeva Sotnikov was killed in a penal colony
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of the self-proclaimed Ukrainian breakaway state Donetsk People's Republic
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1980 births
2021 deaths
Sportspeople from Zaporizhzhia
Ukrainian male judoka
Olympic judoka for Ukraine
Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics
People convicted of murder by Ukraine
Ukrainian people convicted of murder
Murdered criminals
People murdered in Ukraine
Ukrainian people who died in prison custody
Prisoners murdered in custody
Prisoners who died in Ukrainian detention
Sportspeople convicted of crimes
21st-century Ukrainian sportsmen