Denys Sylantyev

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Olegovich and the family name is Sylantyev.

Denys Olehovych Sylantyev (Ukrainian: Денис Олегович Силантьєв; born 3 October 1976) is a Ukrainian politician and retired swimmer. He competed at four consecutive Olympics between 1996 and 2008 and who won a silver medal in the 200 m butterfly in 2000. At the next Olympics he was the flag bearer for Ukraine.

Denys Sylantyev

Denys Sylantyev in 2010
Personal information
Full name	Denys Olehovych Sylantyev
Nationality	Ukraine
Born	(1976-10-03) 3 October 1976 (age 47) Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly
Club	Spartak, Zaporozhye Spartak Kyiv
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 1 0 World Championships (LC) 1 0 0 World Championships (SC) 0 1 2 European Championships (LC) 1 5 2 European Championships (SC) 1 2 4 Universiade 2 0 0 Goodwill Games 3 0 1 European Junior Championships 0 1 0 Total 8 10 9 Men's swimming Representing  Ukraine Olympic Games 2000 Sydney 200 m butterfly World Championships (LC) 1998 Perth 200 m butterfly World Championships (SC) 1997 Gothenburg 200 m butterfly 1999 Hong Kong 200 m butterfly 2000 Athens 100 m butterfly European Championships (LC) 2004 Madrid 200 m butterfly 1995 Vienna 100 m butterfly 1997 Seville 100 m butterfly 1997 Seville 200 m butterfly 1999 Istanbul 200 m butterfly 2002 Berlin 200 m butterfly 1999 Istanbul 100 m butterfly 2002 Berlin 100 m butterfly European Championships (SC) 2001 Antwerp 4×50 m freestyle 1998 Sheffield 200 m butterfly 2001 Antwerp 200 m butterfly 1998 Sheffield 100 m butterfly 1999 Lisbon 100 m butterfly 1999 Lisbon 200 m butterfly 2002 Riesa 4×50 m freestyle Universiade 1997 Catania 100 m butterfly 1997 Catania 200 m butterfly Goodwill Games 1998 New York 100 m butterfly 1998 New York 200 m butterfly 1998 New York Team 1998 New York 4x100 m medley European Junior Championships 1993 Istanbul 100 m butterfly

Denys Sylantyev
People's Deputy of Ukraine
8th convocation
In office 27 November 2014 – 29 July 2019
Constituency	Radical Party, No.12^[1]

He won the Mare Nostrum circuit three times: 2000, 2001 and 2002. In 1998 he was named European Swimmer of the Year.

Sylantyev retired from competitions shortly after the 2008 Olympics and focused on politics and development of sport in Ukraine.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Silantyev was a self-nominated candidate in constituency No.217 situated in Kyiv's Obolon District but he did not win a parliamentary seat.^[2] He lost this election to Oleksandr Bryhynets of Batkivshchyna who gained 31.75% of the votes while Silantyev gained 5.18% and fourth place.^[3]

In the 26 October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Sylantyev was as a candidate (placed 8th on the party list) of Radical Party was elected into the Ukrainian parliament.^{[citation needed]} In the 2019 election he was placed 15th on the election list.^[4] But Radical Party lost all its parliamentary seats in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, because it gained about 1% to little to clear the 5% election threshold and also did not win an electoral district seat.^[5]

In the 2020 Kyiv local election (set for 25 October 2020) Sylantyev is a candidate for the Kyiv City Council in Obolon District for For the Future.^[2][6]

References

1. "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIII convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
2. (in Ukrainian) [List "For the future" to the Kyiv City Council: Gusovsky and ex-Ukrainians, ex-deputies], Civil movement "Chesno" (25 September 2020)
3. "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
4. "Кого Ляшко веде на вибори до Верховної Ради: половину фракції та нардепів від Народного фронту". glavcom.ua. 10 June 2019.
5. CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
   (in Russian) Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019)
6. "Rada appoints next elections to local self-govt bodies for Oct 25", Interfax-Ukraine (15 July 2020)

External links

•   Media related to Denys Sylantyev at Wikimedia Commons
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.

Awards
Preceded by Emiliano Brembilla	Swimming World's European Swimmer of the Year 1998	Succeeded by Pieter van den Hoogenband
Sporting positions
Preceded by Unknown	Mare Nostrum Series Overall Winner 2000 – 2002	Succeeded by Martina Moravcová