Dmitri Svatkovskiy

Dmitriy Valerievich Svatkovskiy (Russian: Дмитрий Валерьевич Сватковский; born 27 November 1971) is a Russian modern pentathlete, Olympic champion and politician.

Svatkovskiy competed for Russia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he won an individual gold medal.

[2] Svatkovskiy decided to retire from sports after the 2000 Olympics and worked as a modern pentathlon coach for a short while before going to politics.

He was married to former rhythmic gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist Oxana Skaldina, their daughter Daria Svatkovskaya (b.

[3] In September 2018, Svatkovsky was elected Member of the State Duma from Nizhny Novgorod constituency at the by-election.