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Full name | Eskender Mustafaiev | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Ukraine | ||||||||||||||
Born | 17 July 1981 | ||||||||||||||
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Eskender Mustafaiev (Ukrainian: Ескендер Аметович Мустафаєв; born July 17, 1981) is a swimmer from Aqyar/Sevastopil. Ukraine.[1] He won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 50 metre freestyle S4 race.
Mustafaiev was a member of the swimming team from Ukraine at the 2011 IPC European Swimming Championships in Berlin, Germany. He competed in the Men’s 50m Freestyle S4.[2]
When he was 31-years-old, Mustafaiev won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 50 metre freestyle S4 with a time of 38.26 seconds.[1][3][4][5] He also competed in the 100m freestyle, 50m backstroke and 200m freestyle races in London.[1] He was one of three people from Ukraine who was from Crimea who competed in London. The other two sportspeople were swimmer Dmytro Kryzhanivskyi and shooter Olha Mustafaieva.[6] He finished last in the 50m backstroke final.[5] After the 2012 Games, they gave him the Order of Merit for his sport work.[7]
At the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal, Mustafaiev won a gold in the men’s 50 freestyle S4 with a time of 37.96 seconds.[8] He won a silver medal in the men’s 100 freestyle S4. He lost the race to Slovenia's Darko Duric, who defeated him by a third of a second.[9]
Mustafaiev did not compete at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships and did not defend his world championship title.[10]
In October 2014, Mustafaiev, two other Crimean Paralympic and Deaflympic swimmers and a Crimean Paralympic or Deaflympic coach lost their Ukrainian sports scholarship. This was decided after reports they moved to Russia.[11][12]