Dmitri Svatkovskiy
Dmitri Svatkovskiy is a Russian modern pentathlete, Olympic champion and politician.Olympics
Svatkovskiy competed for Russia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he won an individual gold medal. He won a team silver medal with the Unified team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
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. From 2006-10, Svatkovskiy worked as the minister of economics of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and since 2010 has been the deputy governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. Since 2006 he has worked as the president of European Modern Pentathlon Federation and is the president of the charitable organization, Five Rings, which provides health and social protection for retired athletes.
He was married to former rhythmic gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist Oxana Skaldina, their daughter Daria Svatkovskaya is also a rhythmic gymnast.
In September 2018, Svatkovsky was elected Member of the State Duma from Nizhny Novgorod constituency at the by-election.
