Vladimir Sidorkin

Vladimir Sidorkin
Personal information
Nationality  Estonia
Born 9 May 1986
Kohtla-Järve, Estonia
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight 87 kg (192 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Kohtla-Järve Ujumisklubi Aktiiv
(EST)
College team Drury Panthers (USA)
Coach Brian Reynolds (USA)

Vladimir Sidorkin (born May 9, 1986 in Kohtla-Järve) is an Estonian swimmer, who specialized in both long and short course freestyle events.[1] He set an Estonian record time of 47.99 by placing eleventh in the 100 m freestyle at the 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Rijeka, Croatia.[2] Sidorkin also helped his college team Drury Panthers to claim their ninth consecutive title in the men's freestyle relay at the 2013 NCAA Division II Swimming Championships.[3][4]

Sidorkin qualified for the men's 200 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:52.12 from the national championships in Tartu.[5] Sidorkin challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including four-time Olympian Andrei Zaharov of Moldova and his fellow college swimming teammate Artur Dilman of Kazakhstan. He raced to second place by less than 0.14 of a second behind Singapore's Bryan Tay, breaking an Estonian record time of 1:51.27. Sidorkin failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-fifth out of 58 swimmers in the preliminaries.[6]

Sidorkin has been previously training for the Drury Panthers swimming and diving team under head coach Brian Reynolds, and later became a graduate of accounting and business administration at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Vladimir Sidorkin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships (Rijeka, Croatia) – Men's 100m Freestyle Semifinal" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Basnett, Chris (11 March 2013). "Drury swimmers celebrate twin titles". Springfield News-Leader. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  4. ↑ Krzyzanowski, Richie (9 March 2013). "Drury claims team title sweep; two more records fall". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  5. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 15. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Men's 200m Freestyle Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 27 November 2012.

External links