Jean Luc Razakarivony

Jean Luc Razakarivony
Personal information
Full name Jean Luc Razakarivony
Nationality  Madagascar
Born 10 September 1975
Antananarivo, Madagascar
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Club Genève Natation 1885

Jean Luc Razakarivony (born September 10, 1975 in Antananarivo) is a retired Malagasy swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] He is a three-time Olympian (1996, 2000, and 2004), a multiple-time Malagasy record holder in the 100 and 200 m breaststroke, and a member of Genève Natation 1885, based in Geneva, Switzerland.[2]

Razakarivony made his official debut, as a 21-year-old native from Madagascar, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He failed to reach the top 16 final in the men's 100 m breaststroke, finishing in forty-first place with a time of 1:07.34.[3]

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Razakarivony delivered his poor performance in the 100 m breaststroke. Swimming in heat one, he edged out Saudi Arabia's Ahmed Al-Kudmani to earn a third spot and fifty-fifth overall by exactly a tenth of a second (0.10) in his personal best of 1:05.97.[4]

Razakarivony swam for his third time in the 100 m breaststroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He received a Universality place from FINA in an entry time of 1:07.25.[5] He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Kyrgyzstan's Yevgeny Petrashov, who also competed with the same number of Games. He posted a time of 1:07.74 to save a sixth spot over Petrashov by four hundredths of a second (0.04). Razakarivony ended his third and final Olympic stint with a fifty-fourth place effort on the first day of preliminaries.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Jean Luc Razakarivony". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Natation: Limites atteintes pour Sagne et le relais 4×100 dames" [Swimming: Limit reached for Sagne and the women's 4×100 m relay] (in French). News Suisse. 12 August 2001. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Aquatics (Swimming) – Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 2" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 48. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 1" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 239. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 100m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  6. ↑ "Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  7. ↑ Whitten, Phillip (14 August 2004). "Prelims, Men's 100 Breaststroke: Kitajima, Hansen Qualify One-Two; Japanese Sets Olympic Record". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.