Sergey Pankov (swimmer)

Sergey Pankov

Personal information
Nationality	Uzbekistan
Born	(1988-12-02) 2 December 1988 Tashkent, Uzbek SSR
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke, butterfly
Medal record Men's swimming Competitor for  Uzbekistan Asian Championships Bronze 2006 Singapore 200 m backstroke

Sergey Pankov (Uzbek: Сергей Панков; born December 2, 1988 in Tashkent) is an Uzbekistani swimmer, who specialized in backstroke and butterfly events.^[1] He won a bronze medal in the 200 m backstroke at the 2006 Asian Swimming Championships in Singapore, and had achieved an eighth-place finish in the same discipline at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.

Pankov made his official debut, as a 15-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he competed in the men's 200 m butterfly. He rounded out the field of 39 swimmers to last place by four seconds behind Seychelles' Bertrand Bristol, with a slowest time of 2:13.06.^[2]

Four years after competing in his first Olympics, Pankov qualified for his second Uzbekistan team, as a 19-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He cleared a FINA B-cut of 2:03.79 (200 m backstroke) from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in Almaty.^[3] In the 200 m backstroke, Pankov rounded out the first heat in last place by almost two seconds behind Oleg Rabota of Kazakhstan and Brett Fraser of the Cayman Islands in his lifetime best of 2:03.51. Pankov failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-eighth overall in the preliminaries.^[4]

References

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile