fullname event headercolor birth_place weight height sport birth_date article_title name
oleksandr shaposhnyk 58 kg #eecf 70 kharkiv , ukrainian ssr , soviet union 58 kg lb 0 on 1.77 0 on taekwondo 18 june 1983 oleksandr shaposhnyk
 oleksandr shaposhnyk
oleksandr shaposhnyk

oleksandr shaposhnyk -lrb- ; born june 18 , 1983 in kharkiv -rrb- is a ukrainian taekwondo practitioner , who competed in the men 's flyweight category .
he claimed a silver medal in the 58-kg division at the 2002 european taekwondo championships in samsun , turkey , and later represented his nation ukraine at the 2004 summer olympics .
shaposhnyk qualified as a lone taekwondo jin for the ukrainian squad in the men 's flyweight class -lrb- 58 kg -rrb- at the 2004 summer olympics in athens , by granting a berth and placing third from the european olympic qualifying tournament in baku , azerbaijan .
shaposhnyk got off to a flying start with an impressive 7 -- 5 victory over yemen 's akram abdullah , but he was cautiously thrashed by his mexican opponent Óscar salazar in the quarterfinal match at 2 -- 6 .
in the repechage , shaposhnyk was scheduled to fight against dominican republic 's gabriel mercedes on his first attempt , but pulled himself out of the tournament due to his knee injury sustained from the previous match .
