{"id":620297,"date":"2025-08-04T22:05:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T05:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=620297"},"modified":"2025-08-05T08:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:09:06","slug":"i-dont-know-if-im-going-to-be-alive-ukraine-diver-oleksii-sereda-returns-to-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/i-dont-know-if-im-going-to-be-alive-ukraine-diver-oleksii-sereda-returns-to-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Don\u2019t Know if I\u2019m Going to Be Alive\u2019: Ukraine Diver Oleksii Sereda Returns to Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018I Don\u2019t Know if I\u2019m Going to Be Alive\u2019: Ukraine Diver Oleksii Sereda Returns to Uncertainty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian diver <strong>Oleksii Sereda<\/strong> knows how to handle pressure. That\u2019s true on the boards, where the 19-year-old has competed internationally since he was 13. And it applies to his life in a home county at war for three and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>Sereda will bring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-cassiel-rousseau-wins-platform-in-china-free-podium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the silver medal he won on men\u2019s 10-meter platform<\/a> at the World Championships in Singapore back to an uncertain home that has been fighting off an invasion by\u00a0 Russia since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019m going to be alive,\u201d Sereda said Sunday. \u201cI mean, really I\u2019m not kidding. Everything is possible. Today, in Mykolaiv, my pool where I\u2019ve been training for five years and when I was young, was partially destroyed. And sometimes, rockets are really close, and you have no idea if you\u2019re going to wake up again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sereda hails from Mykolaiv, a Black Sea port between Kherson and Odesa in southern Ukraine. Like all athletes from his country, representing the country internationally has become a form of national service.<\/p>\n<p>Sereda does that well. He\u2019s medaled in four consecutive editions of the World Aquatics Championships dating back to 2022, with three silvers and two bronze, including consecutive medals in individual platform. In between, he finished eighth on platform and fifth in men\u2019s platform synchro (with <strong>Kirill Boliukh<\/strong>) at the Paris Olympics after having been sixth in both events at age 15 in Tokyo in 2021.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2025-world-aquatics-championships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omegatiming.com\/2025\/world-aquatics-championships-div-live-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Results<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 19-year-old allowed himself some time to celebrate the achievement in Singapore. He finished second to Australian <strong>Cassiel Rousseau,<\/strong> with <strong>Randal Willars<\/strong> of Mexico third in a rare event where the Chinese powerhouse was kept off the podium.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_620240\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-620240\" data-attachment-id=\"620240\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-cassiel-rousseau-wins-platform-in-china-free-podium\/men_s-10m-platform-_-final-_-day-24-_-world-aquatics-championships-singapore-2025_original-image_m143679\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Men_s-10m-Platform-_-Final-_-Day-24-_-World-Aquatics-Championships-Singapore-2025_Original-Image_m143679.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"924,616\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Men_s-10m-Platform-_-Final-_-Day-24-_-World-Aquatics-Championships-Singapore-2025_Original-Image_m143679\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;8-4-25&lt;br \/&gt;\n2025 World Aquatics Championships men&#8217;s platform podium Olekseii Sereda Cassiel Rousseau Randal Willars&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Olekseii Sereda, left; Photo Courtesy: World Aquatics\/Singapore 2025&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Men_s-10m-Platform-_-Final-_-Day-24-_-World-Aquatics-Championships-Singapore-2025_Original-Image_m143679-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Men_s-10m-Platform-_-Final-_-Day-24-_-World-Aquatics-Championships-Singapore-2025_Original-Image_m143679.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-620240\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Men_s-10m-Platform-_-Final-_-Day-24-_-World-Aquatics-Championships-Singapore-2025_Original-Image_m143679.jpg\" alt=\"Cassiel Rousseau Oleksii Sereda\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Men_s-10m-Platform-_-Final-_-Day-24-_-World-Aquatics-Championships-Singapore-2025_Original-Image_m143679.jpg 924w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Men_s-10m-Platform-_-Final-_-Day-24-_-World-Aquatics-Championships-Singapore-2025_Original-Image_m143679-280x187.jpg 280w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Men_s-10m-Platform-_-Final-_-Day-24-_-World-Aquatics-Championships-Singapore-2025_Original-Image_m143679-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Men_s-10m-Platform-_-Final-_-Day-24-_-World-Aquatics-Championships-Singapore-2025_Original-Image_m143679-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Men_s-10m-Platform-_-Final-_-Day-24-_-World-Aquatics-Championships-Singapore-2025_Original-Image_m143679-533x355.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-620240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oleksii Sereda, left; Photo Courtesy: World Aquatics\/Singapore 2025<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI feel happy,\u201d he said. \u201cI see that I get the silver medal, first in my life. I see progress, and I&#8217;m feeling great. It\u2019s a really great feeling when you\u2019re working and you get a result. So I will be working even more to be the first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like many athletes, his training has been disrupted in Ukraine, forcing him to travel to Hungary and Poland for stable facilities. But then everything has been disrupted, in a country where attacks range far from the front lines via missile and drone attacks. His father is fighting at the front, a place Sereda would be if not for his talent allowing him to serve as a representative of his country in a different way.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a challenge for people at home to \u201csleep normally, to just live normally,\u201d and that weighs on Sereda whether he\u2019s there or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m feeling stressed every single day because of him, trying to call him as much as possible, because it\u2019s really dangerous to be there,\u201d Sereda said. \u201cI think today he watched me. I\u2019m not sure, because he is really close to the front, and I don\u2019t know if he had a chance to watch me, but I think probably yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sereda\u2019s future is as uncertain as his country\u2019s. He\u2019s heading back to Kyiv, the capital. He will get some time off in September. But otherwise, he\u2019ll be working toward his craft, with the hope that it can inspire a nation in his own way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Ukraine, I think that it means that we are capable to achieve great results,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are capable to fight even in these conditions, and we are capable to win. I hope that I inspire someone. I don\u2019t know, because I\u2019m not a world champion, that\u2019s why I don\u2019t know if I can inspire someone. But anyway, I would really like this war to end as fast as possible, because it\u2019s not normal life. It\u2019s not how it must be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I Don\u2019t Know if I\u2019m Going to Be Alive\u2019: Ukraine Diver Oleksii Sereda Returns to Uncertainty Ukrainian diver Oleksii Sereda knows how to handle pressure. 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