Andrei Cecan

Andrei Cecan
Personal information
Nationality  Moldova
Born 20 June 1976
Chişinău, Moldavian SSR
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 78 kg (172 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Dinamo Chişinău

Andrei Cecan (born June 20, 1976 in Chişinău) is a retired Moldovan swimmer, who specialized in middle-distance freestyle events.[1] He is a single-time Olympian (2000), a sixth-place finalist at the 1999 Summer Universiade, and a member of Dinamo Chişinău.

Cecan made his official worldwide debut at the 1998 FINA World Championships in Perth, Australia. In the 400 m freestyle, he powered home with a fifteenth-place effort in the B-Final in a time of 3:56.68, trailing Hungary's Béla Szabados by two hundredths of a second (0.02).[2]

Cecan competed in the men's 200 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He posted a FINA B-time of 1:52.12 from the Summer Universiade in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.[3][4] He challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Ukraine's Rostyslav Svanidze, a top 16 finalist in Atlanta four years earlier. Cecan raced to sixth place by three-tenths of a second (0.30) behind Kyrgyzstan's Dmitri Kuzmin in a time of 1:53.23. Cecan failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-first overall in the prelims.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Andrei Cecan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "1998 FINA World Championships (Perth, Australia): Men's 400m Freestyle Final B" (PDF). USA Swimming. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 200m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 4)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "1999 World University Games (Palma de Mallorca, Spain): Men's 200m Freestyle Prelims". USA Swimming. 4 July 1999. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 200m Freestyle Heat 4" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 125. Retrieved 23 April 2013.