Ukrainian Olympian and two-time Eu champion Oleksandr Pielieshenko has died at the entrance sequence of Russia’s warfare in Ukraine at generation 30, the Ukrainian Weightlifting Federation (UWF) mentioned on Monday.
Pielieshenko ranked fourth on the Rio 2016 Olympics within the males’s 85 kg section and gained gold on the recreation’s Eu championships in 2016 and 2017.
He was once cancelled upcoming failing a drug take a look at in 2018.
“It is with great sadness that we inform you that the heart of merited master of sports of Ukraine … Oleksandr Pielieshenko has stopped beating today,” the UWF mentioned in a publish on Fb.
“We express our sincere condolences to the family and everyone who knew Oleksandr.”
The Nationwide Olympic Committee of Ukraine additionally paid tribute to the weightlifter, announcing he had joined the militia within the early days of the invasion.
“War takes the best of us … heroes do not die,” mentioned weightlifting professor and UWF board member Viktor Slobodianiuk.
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