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Oleksandr Pielieshenko, two-time European weightlifting champion who represented Ukraine in the Rio 2016 Olympic Gamesdied during the war with Russia, reported his country’s Olympic committee.
Pielieshenko, 30, enlisted in the military shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. “In the first days of the large-scale invasion, Oleksandr joined the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Yesterday we received the sad news of his death,” the committee adds on its Facebook account.
“The Olympic family expresses its deepest condolences to the family, friends and relatives of the athlete,” he adds.
Oleksandr Yuriyovych Pielieshenko was fourth at the Rio Games in the up to 85 kilo category and won gold at the 2016 and 2017 European championships. He was subsequently disqualified until 2026 after testing positive for chlorthalidone, an anti-doping test in 2018.
The mayor of the city of Ivano-Frankvisk, Ruslan Martisnkiv, reported that the four-time world champion was married and had a two-year-old daughter.
According to the Ukrainian authorities, approximately 262 athletes have died as a result of the military aggression of Russia against Ukraine.
Olympics restrictions on Russian athletes
He International Olympic Committee will only allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate with a flag and emblem with the letters AIN (Neutral Individual Athletes) in the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Furthermore, the AIN will not be able to participate in the delegation parade at the opening ceremony, since they are individual athletes, but they will be able to experience the event.
Until now, there is a record of a maximum of 55 Russian and 28 Belarusian participants under the name of AIN. The IOC reported that there will be no Russian athletes in the next event and the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) will have no financial activity.
In 2021, Russia added a total of 335 Russian athletes where they won 20 gold medals and 71 in total.
The neutral delegation would consist of participants in combat sports, such as judo and wrestling. In addition, some of the most important tennis players in the world, such as Daniil Medvedevformer champion of the United States Open.
