Oleksandr Pyatnytsya

Oleksandr Pjatnyzja (Ukrainian Олександр П'ятниця, English transcription Oleksandr Pyatnytsya, . Born 14 July 1985 in Dnipropetrovsk ) is a Ukrainian javelin thrower.

In 2009 he retired from in qualifying at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin. The European Athletics Championships 2010 in Barcelona, ​​he was fourth, and at the World Cup 2011 in Daegu, he came again do not have the preliminaries out.

In 2012 he presented on 20 May in Kiev with 86.12 meters on his personal record. At the European Championships in Helsinki he finished fifth, and at the Olympic Games in London, he won the silver medal with 84.51 meters.