Career
Lepskyy competed for the Ukrainian team in a medley double at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, he cleared FINA B-standard entry times of 2:02.94 (200 m individual medley) and 4:21.16 (400 m individual medley) at the Multinations Swim Meet in Prague, Czechoslovakian Republic. On the first day of the Games, Lepskyy cruised to sixth place in the final heat and twentieth overall by thirteen seconds behind United States. swimmer and all-time Olympian Michael Phelps (4:0782) in 4:20.96.
In the 200 m individual medley, Lepskyy challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including two-time Olympian and California Bears swimmer Miguel Molina of the Philippines.
He raced to third place by 0.12 of a second behind Molina with a time of 2:01.73. Lepskyy failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-eighth overall in the preliminaries.
