Vladimir Sidorkin

Vladimir Sidorkin
Personal information
Nationality  Estonia
Born (1986-05-09) 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) 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 finishing 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 was born in Kohtla-Järve. He 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" Check |url= value (help) (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.

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