Dmytro Valeriyovych Mikhay (Ukrainian: Дмитро Валерійович Міхай; born 27 February 1990) is a Ukrainian rower. He won the gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, with what is still a world's fastest time as of September 2018.[1][2]
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| Nationality | Ukrainian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 February 1990 Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 94 kg (207 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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He competed in the double sculls at the 2012 Summer Olympics with Artem Morozov.[3] He won the gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam with Morozov, Oleksandr Nadtoka and Ivan Dovhodko.[1] The team also won the European Championships that year.[4] The team of Mikhay, Morozov, Nadtoka and Dovhodko won the silver medal at the 2015 European Championships.[5]
He competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in the men's quadruple sculls with Morozov, Oleksandr Nadtoka and Ivan Dovhodko.[3] In 2018, Mikhay, alongside Sergii Gryn, Nadtoka and Dovhodko won the bronze medal in the men's quadruple sculls at the World Championships.[2]
Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Mikhay and his wife Dasha escaped to England, where they are living with the family of his friend, former rower Jack Beaumont, in Nettlebed, near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b "M4x Results" (PDF). Retrieved 7 September 2014.
- ^ a b "2018 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS - Plovdiv, BUL - (M4x) Men's Quadruple Sculls - Final". worldrowing.com. 15 September 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ a b "Dmytro Mikhay Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- ^ "2014 EUROPEAN ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS -Belgrade, SRB - (M4x) Men's Quadruple Sculls - Final". worldrowing.com. 1 June 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ "2015 EUROPEAN ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS -Poznan, POL - (M4x) Men's Quadruple Sculls - Final". worldrowing.com. 31 May 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ "Ukrainian Olympic rower and wife 'so grateful' after escaping to England". BBC News. 24 May 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
External links
edit- Dmytro Mikhay at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Dmytro Mikhay at World Rowing
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