Oleksandr Serdyuk
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Oleksandr Serdyuk is an athlete from Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

. He competes in archery
Archery
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.

2004 Summer Olympics

Serdyuk competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

 in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32. In the second round of elimination, he was again victorious and advanced to the round of 16. The third match was Serdyuk's downfall, as he lost to Hiroshi Yamamoto of Japan
Japan
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. Serdyuk placed 15th overall. Serdyuk was also a member of the bronze medal
Bronze medal
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 Ukrainian men's archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

 in Beijing
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 Serdyuk finished his ranking round with a total of 661 points. This gave him the 20th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Jens Pieper
Jens Pieper
Jens Pieper is an athlete from Germany, who competes in archery.-2008 Summer Olympics:At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Pieper finished his ranking round with a total of 648 points, which gave him the 45th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Oleksandr Serdyuk in the first...

 in the first round, beating the German
Germany
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 107-105. In the second round Serdyuk and his opponent Rafał Dobrowolski both scored 111 points in the regular match and had to go to an extra round. In this extra round Serdyuk scored 8 points, while Dobrowolski advanced to the third round with 9 points.

Together with Markiyan Ivashko
Markiyan Ivashko
Markiyan Ivashko is an athlete from Ukraine. He competes in archery.-2008 Summer Olympics:At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Ivashko finished his ranking round with a total of 658 points. This gave him the 32nd seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Daniel Morillo in the...

 and Viktor Ruban
Viktor Ruban
Viktor Ruban is an athlete from Ukraine, who competes in archery.-2004 Summer Olympics:Ruban competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32; he also won his second match, advancing to the round of 16...

 he also took part in the team event. With his 676 score from the ranking round combined with the 678 of Ruban and the 658 of Ivashko the Ukraine were in second position after the ranking round, which gave them a straigh seed into the quarter finals. With 214-211 they were too strong for the Chinese Taipei
Chinese Taipei
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 team, but in the semi final they were eliminated by Italy
Italy
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 223-221. In the challenge for the bronze medal China
China
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was too strong with 222-219.
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