Aleksey Vladimirovich Dyachenko (a.k.a. Aleksei Diachenko; Russian: Алексе́й Влади́мирович Дьяче́нко; born 11 November 1978) is a Russian sabre fencer and a commercial pilot in the United States.
Aleksey Dyachenko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1978-11-11) 11 November 1978 (age 43) St. Petersburg, Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon | sabre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIE ranking | current ranking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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He is the son of fencing coaches Vladimir and Natalya Dyachenko. His sister Yekaterina is a world champion sabre fencer.
Dyachenko took part in the team sabre event for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as a reserve of the Russia team, which won a gold medal. He qualified as a full member of the team to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In the individual event he lost in the first round to Ukraine's Volodymyr Kaliuzhniy.[1] In the team event, Russia overcame Greece, but fell to Italy in the semifinals. They defeated the United States by a single hit to win the bronze medal. Dyatchenko only participated in the quarter final.[1]
Dyachenko is also a three-time world champion with the Russian team.
In 2013 he began training in the USA to obtain a commercial pilot license. Upon completion of training, he flew as first officer and pilot in command on the Pilatus PC-12 aircraft in Tradewind Aviation and ExpressJet Airlines. Since October 2020, he has been flying as a co-pilot on the Embraer ERJ 145 aircraft in the CommutAir company. Upon reaching the flight time of 5,000 hours, he is going to work for a large passenger airline.[2][3]
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