Aliaksandr Buikevich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Aliaksandr Buikevich

Belarusian fencer

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1984

Place of Birth: Brest, Brest Region, Belarus

Profession: fencer

Nationality: Belarus

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Aliaksandr Buikevich

  • Aliaksandr Mikalayevich Buikevich (Belarusian: ?????????? ?????????? ????????, Russian: ????????? ????????; born 19 November 1984) is a Belarusian sabre fencer, European champion in 2008 and team silver medallist at the 2011 World Championships in Catania.
  • At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he reached the quarter-finals in the individual sabre, losing to Romania's Mihai Covaliu, while the Belarusian sabre team also reached the quarter-finals.
  • At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the men's sabre, but was defeated in the table of 16 by Romania's Rare? Dumitrescu.
  • The Belarusian team again reached the quarter-finals.
  • Buikevich qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as the only Belarusian fencer.
  • In men's sabre in the table of 32 he defeated Joseph Polossifakis of Canada.
  • He could not advance to the quarter-finals as in the table of 16 he lost to the eventual winner Áron Szilágyi of Hungary, who claimed his second consecutive gold medal at the Olympics individual men's sabre.
  • Buikevich finished 12th in the event.

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