Oleg Rabota

Oleg Rabota
Personal information
Nationality  Kazakhstan
Born 12 June 1990
Almaty, Kazakh SSR
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, backstroke
College team Southern Illinois Salukis (USA)

Oleg Rabota (Kazakh: Олег Работа; born June 12, 1990 in Almaty) is a Kazakhstani swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and backstroke events.[1] He is a multiple-time national record holder and a silver medalist for the 200 m freestyle at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games in Macau, China. Rabota is currently a member of the swimming team for Southern Illinois Salukis at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.

Rabota qualified for two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing FINA B-standard entry times of 3:56.98 (400 m freestyle) from the Kazakhstan Open in Almaty and 2:03.75 (200 m backstroke) from the Good Luck Beijing China Open.[2][3] In the 400 m freestyle, Rabota challenged four other swimmers on the first heat, including three-time Olympian Květoslav Svoboda of the Czech Republic. He rounded out the field to last place and thirty-sixth overall by nearly three seconds behind Argentina's Juan Martín Pereyra, with a time of 4:02.16.[4] In his second event, 200 m backstroke, Rabota raced to second on the same heat by 0.78 of a second behind Brett Fraser of the Cayman Islands in 2:01.95. Rabota failed to qualify for the semifinals, as he placed thirty-third out of 42 swimmers in the preliminaries.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Oleg Rabota". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "Good Luck Beijing China Open: Day Five Prelims". Swimming World Magazine. 4 February 2008. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 400m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 16. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Men's 400m Freestyle Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  5. ↑ "Men's 200m Backstroke Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 31 December 2012.

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