Eskender Mustafaiev
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| Full name | Eskender Mustafaiev | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Ukraine | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 July 1981 | ||||||||||||||
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Eskender Mustafaiev (Ukrainian: Ескендер Аметович Мустафаєв; born July 17, 1981) is a swimmer from Aqyar/Sevastopil. Ukraine.[1] He won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 50 metre freestyle S4 race.
Swimming[change | change source]
Mustafaiev was a member of the swimming team from Ukraine at the 2011 IPC European Swimming Championships in Berlin, Germany. He competed in the Men’s 50m Freestyle S4.[2]
When he was 31-years-old, Mustafaiev won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 50 metre freestyle S4 with a time of 38.26 seconds.[1][3][4][5] He also competed in the 100m freestyle, 50m backstroke and 200m freestyle races in London.[1] He was one of three people from Ukraine who was from Crimea who competed in London. The other two sportspeople were swimmer Dmytro Kryzhanivskyi and shooter Olha Mustafaieva.[6] He finished last in the 50m backstroke final.[5] After the 2012 Games, they gave him the Order of Merit for his sport work.[7]
At the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal, Mustafaiev won a gold in the men’s 50 freestyle S4 with a time of 37.96 seconds.[8] He won a silver medal in the men’s 100 freestyle S4. He lost the race to Slovenia's Darko Duric, who defeated him by a third of a second.[9]
Mustafaiev did not compete at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships and did not defend his world championship title.[10]
In October 2014, Mustafaiev, two other Crimean Paralympic and Deaflympic swimmers and a Crimean Paralympic or Deaflympic coach lost their Ukrainian sports scholarship. This was decided after reports they moved to Russia.[11][12]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Eskender Mustafaiev wins Paralympic gold". QHA. 3 September 2012. Archived from the original on 11 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
- ↑ "Great Britain Aim to Close Gap on Ukraine". IPC Press. 7 May 2011. Archived from the original on 11 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
- ↑ "El ciclista Alfonso Cabello da el primer oro a España". El Imparcial (in Spanish). 31 August 2012.
- ↑ "ucraniano Eskender Mustafaiev (d) felicitado por frances David Smetanine tras ganar 50 metros libres EFE". El Universo (in Spanish). 31 August 2012.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Event Results London Paralympics". My Swim Results. 2012.
- ↑ "Crimean athletes to vie for Paralympic gold". QHA. 29 August 2012. Archived from the original on 11 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
- ↑ Сергея Аллахвердяна (18 September 2012). "УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАИНЫ № 546/2012 О награждении государственными наградами Украины". Паралимпийский спорт в Украине (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 12 December 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
- ↑ Jeff Grace (12 August 2013). "FIVE WORLD RECORDS FALL ON THE FIRST NIGHT OF IPC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS". Swim Swam.
- ↑ "Benoit Huot Gets Local Crowd Excited With 200 IM Win at IPC Worlds". Swimming World. August 2013.
- ↑ "Eindhoven 2014: What to watch on day two". International Paralympic Committee. 6 August 2014.
- ↑ "Порошенко позбавив стипендій чемпіонів-паралімпійців, які втекли до Росії". Високий Замок Online (in Ukrainian). 14 October 2014. Archived from the original on 11 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
- ↑ "Про позбавлення стипендій Президента України для видатних спортсменів із паралімпійських і дефлімпійських [...] Президент України;". Президент України (in Ukrainian). 14 October 2014.
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