Yevgeny Petrashov

Yevgeny Petrashov
Personal information
Full name Yevgeny Petrashov
Nationality  Kyrgyzstan
Born 4 September 1974
Bishkek, Kirghiz SSR
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke

Yevgeny Petrashov (born September 4, 1974 in Bishkek) is a retired Kyrgyzstani swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] He is a three-time Olympian (1996, 2000, and 2004), and a former Kyrgyzstan record holder in both 100 and 200 m breaststroke.

Petrashov made his official debut 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-second place with a time of 1:07.44.[2] He also placed twenty-first, as a member of the Kyrgyzstan team, in the 4×100 m medley relay (3:56.24).[3]

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Petrashov delivered his poor performance in the 100 m breaststroke. Swimming in heat four, he rounded out a field of eight swimmers to last place and fifty-ninth overall by a 3.30-second margin behind joint winners Arsenio López of Puerto Rico and Valērijs Kalmikovs of Latvia in 1:07.32.[4]

Petrashov swam for his third time in the 100 m breaststroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He achieved a FINA B-standard of 1:04.82 from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in Almaty.[5] He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Madagascar's Jean Luc Razakarivony, who also competed in the same number of Games. He earned a seventh spot by four hundredths of a second (0.04) behind Razakarivony in 1:07.78. Petrashov ended his third and final Olympic stint with a fifty-fifth place effort on the first day of preliminaries.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Yevgeny Petrashov". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Aquatics (Swimming) – Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 2" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 48. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Aquatics (Swimming) – Men's 4×100m Medley Relay Heat 2" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 52. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 4" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 240. 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.