Oleksii Fedyna

Who is Oleksii Fedyna?

Oleksii Fedyna is a visually impaired Paralympic swimmer from Ukraine competing in S13 events.

Oleksii competed in seven events at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing winning five medals, three of them gold. He made the final, but missed out on medals in the 100m butterfly and 400m freestyle, he also won silver medals in both the 100m backstroke and freestyle, on both occasions behind Greece's Charalampos Taiganidis who set world records in both events, his gold medals came in the 50m freestyle, 100m breaststroke and 200m medley setting world records in each of the events in the process.

As of February 2013, he remains IPC world record holder in his classification for the 50 metres freestyle and 100 metres breaststroke events.