Career
He is a multiple-time national record holder and a six-time medalist for the freestyle and relay swimming events (both 50 and 100 m) at the Asian Indoor Games (2007 in Macau, China, and 2009 in Hanoi, Vietnam). Sklyar qualified for the men"s 100 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 50.89 from the Russian Open Swimming Championships in Saint St. Petersburg. He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including sixteen-year-old swimmers Virdhawal Khade of India and Christopher Duenas of Guam.
Sklyar cruised to fourth place by 0.74 of a second behind Barbados" Martyn Forde, with a time of 51.24 seconds.
Sklyar, however, failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-second out of 64 swimmers in the preliminaries.