Dmytro Boiko
Ukrainian sabre fencer (born 1986)
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Dmytro Viktorovych Boiko (Ukrainian: Дмитро Вікторович Бойко; born 16 January 1986) is a Ukrainian sabre fencer.
Nativename
Дмитро Вікторович Бойко
NicknameDima
Born16 January 1986
Polyan', Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
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| Native name | Дмитро Вікторович Бойко | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Dima | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 January 1986 Polyan', Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fencing career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weapon | Sabre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National coach | Valery Shturbabin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Dynamo Khmelnytskyi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIE ranking | current ranking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
Boiko won a silver medal in the sabre team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships, after losing to France in the final. He accomplished this with his teammates Volodymyr Lukashenko, Oleh Shturbabin, and Vladislav Tretiak.[1]
Boiko was educated at the Lviv State University of Physical Culture. He married Ukrainian Olympic sabre fencer Olha Kharlan in August 2014.[2] They later divorced.[3]
Achievements
2006 World Fencing Championships, team sabre
