Dmitri Stepanowitsch Shevchenko

Dmitri Stepanowitsch Shevchenko ( Russian: Дмитрий Степанович Шевченко ; born November 13, 1967 in Moscow , former Soviet Union ) is a former Soviet, later Russian , fencer and Olympic champion with the foil .

Dmitri Shevchenko is a graduate of the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture and started for the Central Army Sports Club Moscow (CSKA Moscow) . He is 1.94 m tall and weighed 96 kg when he was active. In 1987, Shevchenko made international attention for the first time when he won the Junior World Championship in foil fencing. Just two years later at the World Fencing Championships in 1989 he secured his first title among the active players when he won with the Soviet team ( Romankow , Shevchenko, Holubyzkyj , Korezki and Məmmədov ). In 1995 - starting for Russia - he won the singles and became vice world champion with the team (Shevchenko, Ibragimow , Mamedow, Pavlovich ).

Shevchenko took part in the Olympic Games three times, in Barcelona in 1992 he fought for the United Team , in the foil individual he was 13th, with the team to which Serhij Holubyzkyj, Vyacheslav Grigoryev , Anvar Ibragimow and İlqar Məmmədov belonged, he occupied Fifth place. Four years later, at the Atlanta Games , he achieved his greatest success. In the individual still on rank 17, he won together with Mamedow and Pawlowitsch in the team fight. At the age of 32, Shevchenko won the bronze medal in singles in his third participation in the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , the Russian team finished eighth.

Further successes were winning the European Championship in 1994 and winning the World Cup in the same year. Dmitri Shevchenko was named an Honored Master of Sport.

Web links

• Dmitri Stepanowitsch Shevchenko in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Team line-ups at fencing world championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Шевченко Дмитрий Степанович (Shevchenko, Dmitri Stepanowitsch) ( Russian ) «Biografija.ru» - www.biografija.ru. Retrieved April 28, 2010.