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Demir Atasoy (also Dmitry Cherkasov born May 26 1987 in Dnipropetrovsk Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian-born Turkish swimmer who specialized in the breaststroke events.Atasoy qualified for the men’s 100 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by clearing a FINA B-standard time of 1:02.43 from the Croatian Open Championships in Dubrovnik. He challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat including three-time Olympian Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson of Iceland.