Andres Olvik

Andres Olvik
Personal information
Nationality  Estonia
Born (1986-04-16) 16 April 1986
Tallinn, Estonia
Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄2 in)
Weight 89 kg (196 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke
Club Kalevi Ujumiskool
Medal record
Men's swimming
Competitor for  Estonia
Baltic Championships
2011 Riga 100 m backstroke
2011 Riga 200 m backstroke

Andres Olvik (born April 16, 1986 ) is an Estonian swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.[1] He set a long-course Estonian record of 2:02.67 in the men's 200 m backstroke at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.[2] He also won two gold medals in the same discipline at the 2011 Baltic Swimming Championships in Riga, Latvia.

Olvik was born in Tallinn and qualified for the men's 200 m backstroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:03.12 from Baltic State Multi-Nations Meet in Riga, Latvia.[3] He challenged six other swimmers on the second heat, including three-time Olympian Květoslav Svoboda of the Czech Republic. He rounded out the field to last place by seven hundredths of a second (0.07) behind Ukraine's Oleksandr Isakov with a slowest time of 2:03.66. Olvik failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fortieth overall in the preliminary heats.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Andres Olvik". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "2012 European Aquatics Championships (Debrecen, Hungary) – Men's 200m Backstroke Heats" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Backstroke" Check |url= value (help) (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 26. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Men's 200m Backstroke Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 27 November 2012.

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