On Sunday, February 29, at around 6 PM, in a car accident that occurred at the intersection of Stolychnoe Highway and Lyubomyrska Street, the captain of the Ukrainian national gymnastics team, 2000 European champion and Olympic medalist in Sydney, Oleksandr Beresh, was killed.
as reported to www.champion.com.ua by the Kyiv Traffic Police Department, Oleksandr Beresh, who was driving a Peugeot 307, died at the scene from his injuries. The Peugeot passenger, another member of the Ukrainian national team, Serhiy Vyaltsov, was taken to the Kyiv intensive care hospital with severe injuries. as was learned after the collision, Vyaltsov regained consciousness and said to contact the president of the gymnastics federation, Ihor Korobchynskyi, who together with police immediately arrived at the accident scene.
At the same time, it became known that the BMW 740 car that collided with the Peugeot 307 was occupied by the daughter of Vice-Speaker Adam Martynyuk. This was reported by Verkhovna Rada Chairman Lytvyn at a press conference on Monday. He said that the vehicle from the Verkhovna Rada motor pool, in which Martynyuk's daughter was riding, was traveling in the direction of Koncha-Zaspa. At that time, "in violation of all rules," Beresh's car pulled out from a side road onto the main highway, resulting in the collision of the vehicles.
Nevertheless, the traffic police have not yet said who is right and who is wrong, noting that an investigation is currently underway. At the same time, they added that the passenger and driver of the BMW were taken to Kyiv hospital No. 17 with rather severe injuries.
Oleksandr Beresh is a silver medalist in team competition and bronze medalist in the all-around at the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, multiple-time World Championship medalist, absolute European champion of 2000 and World Universiade-99 champion. He defended the colors of the "Dynamo" society. In Kherson, Oleksandr left behind a wife and a little daughter.