Dmitry Anatolyevich Sablin ( February 7, 1979 , Kremenchug ) - Ukrainian rower-canoeist , played for the Ukrainian team in the late 1990s - mid-2000s. Participant in the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, world champion, two-time European champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance. At the competition he represented the sports society "Ukraine", Honored Master of Sports.
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| A country |  Ukraine |
| Specialization | canoe 200 m |
| Date of Birth | February 7, 1979 (aged 40) |
| Place of Birth | Kremenchug , Ukrainian SSR , USSR |
| Growth | 175 cm |
| Weight | 80 kg |
Biography
Dmitry Sablin was born on February 7, 1979 in the city of Kremenchug, Poltava region of the Ukrainian SSR . He began to actively engage in rowing from early childhood, was trained in Komsomolsk in the local sports society "Ukraine".
He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 1999, when he joined the main team of the Ukrainian national team and attended the European Championships in the Croatian Zagreb, where he brought a bronze dignity award won in the program of four-seater crews a thousand meters together with rowers like Nikolai Dimakov , Leonid Kamlochuk and Roman Bundz - in the decisive race he was ahead of only the national teams of Russia and Romania. A year later, at the European Championships in Polish Poznan, he defeated singles at two hundred meters and became a bronze medalist in fours at two hundred meters.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney - together with his team mate Sergey Klimnyuk he managed to reach the finals in doubles at a distance of 500 meters, but in the decisive race he showed only the eighth result.
After the Sydney Olympics, Sablin remained in the main composition of the rowing team of Ukraine and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 2001, he won gold medals at the European Championships in Milan and at the World Championships in Poznan - both in the classification of single canoes at a distance of 200 meters. The following season, at a world championship in Spain, Seville won a silver medal in the same discipline, but then he was convicted of using illegal substances and was disqualified with canceling the results.
At the end of the period of ineligibility, Dmitry Sablin returned to sports and already in 2003 at the World Championships in American Gainesville received bronze in two at two hundred meters. The last time showed any significant result in the 2006 season at the European Championship in Czech Rachitsa, when he became a bronze medalist in the two-hundred-meter race of double crews. Soon after the end of these competitions, he decided to end the career of a professional athlete, giving way to young Ukrainian rowers in the national team.
For outstanding sports achievements he was awarded the honorary title " Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine " [1] .
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Links
- Dmitry Sablin - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Dmitry Sablin - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )