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Maksym Nikolenko

Ukrainian para table tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ28701824 ↗
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Maksym Vasyliovych Nikolenko (Ukrainian: Максим Васильович Ніколенко; born 14 August 1993) is a Ukrainian para table tennis player. He won the gold medal in the men's team C6–8 event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

In 2021, he won one of the bronze medals in the men's individual C8 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. He also won the silver medal in the men's team C8 event.

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The public source identifies “Maksym Nikolenko” as ukrainian para table tennis player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Maksym, Nikolenko and Ukrainian.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2016, 2021, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-08-14. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Maksym, Nikolenko and Ukrainian providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28701824. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993, 2016, 2021 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maksym Nikolenko” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.