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May 26, 1987 Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine 36 years old
Olympic swimmer
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About Demir Atasoy
- Demir Atasoy (also Dmitry Cherkasov, born May 26, 1987 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian-born Turkish swimmer, who specialized in the breaststroke events.Atasoy qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard time of 1:02.43 from the Croatian Open Championships in Dubrovnik.
- He challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including three-time Olympian Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson of Iceland.
- Atasoy edged out Serbia's Caba Siladi to take the second spot by six hundredths of a second (0.06), posting his lifetime best of 1:02.25.
- Atasoy failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-ninth overall on the first night of preliminaries.At the 2013 Mediterranean Games held in Mersin, Turkey, he won the bronze medal in the men's 4 × 100 m medley relay. He won four gold medals and one silver medal at the 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Palembang, Indonesia.
