Alexey Yakimenko (born 31 October 1983) is a Russia

Russia

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n fencer

Fencing

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, who won a bronze medal in the team sabre competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

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 in Athens

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 together with Alexei Diatchenko

Alexei Diatchenko

Alexei Vladimirovich Diatchenko is a Russian fencer, who has won a bronze Olympic medal in the team sabre competition. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Diatchenko only participated in the quarter final.-References:...

, Stanislav Pozdniakov

Stanislav Pozdniakov

Stanislav Alexeyevich Pozdniakov is a Russian fencer, who has won five Olympic medals in the sabre competitions. He also won the gold medal at the 2006 World Fencing Championships and the 2007 World Fencing Championships in the individual sabre as well as a bronze medal in the team sabre in...

 and Sergey Sharikov. He represented Russia again at the 2008 Summer Olympics

2008 Summer Olympics

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 but did not win a medal. He won another bronze medal in team sabre during the 2006 World Fencing Championships

2006 World Fencing Championships

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 together with Nikolay Kovalev

Nikolay Kovalev (fencer)

Nikolay Anatolyevich Kovalev is a Russian sabre fencer.Kovalev won the bronze medal in the sabre team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Hungary in the bronze medal match...

, Alexei Frossine

Alexei Frossine

Alexei Frossine is a Russian fencer who won a gold medal in the team sabre competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney together with Alexei Diatchenko, Stanislav Pozdniakov, and Sergey Sharikov...

, and Stanislav Pozdniakov. He won the 2005 World Fencing Championships in team with Pozdniakov, Frossine and Diatchenko.

At the 2010 European Fencing Championships

2010 European Fencing Championships

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 and the 2011 European Fencing Championships

2011 European Fencing Championships

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he won gold in the individual sabre event.