Ukrainian Olympic swimming champion Oleksandr Sidorenko dies at the age of 61.

MRPL reports.. CITY.

It is noted that the tragedy occurred on Sunday, February 20. What exactly was the cause of death is not reported..

" Alexander Sidorenko is one of those athletes who glorified our city all over the world. He made an invaluable contribution to the development of swimming in the city. European record holder and Olympic winner Alexander Sidorenko proved that Mariupol is a city of strong and confident people. City of real winners. His name is forever inscribed in the history of Mariupol and Ukraine,"

Note that already at the age of sixteen Sidorenko became a master of sports. Two years later, at the championship at a two-hundred-meter distance in medley, he set a new world record - 2 minutes 05.24 seconds.

Then the swimmer won the " In 1979, Alexander Sidorenko was recognized as the best swimmer in the country..

Sidorenko achieved the greatest success in his sports life in 1980. Then at the Olympic Games he became the champion, winning the " A year later, he won the European Championship at a distance of 200 m, and at the 1982 World Championships he was again the first in this discipline with a record of 2:03. thirty.

Since October 1987, Sidorenko worked as the head of the water polo team of masters "