Aleksandr Agafonov

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Aleksandr Agafonov
Personal information
Full nameAleksandr Agafonov
National teamFlag of Uzbekistan.svg  Uzbekistan
Born (1975-04-22) 22 April 1975 (age 49)
Tashkent, Uzbek SSR,
Soviet Union
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight86 kg (190 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Medal record
Representing Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Uzbekistan
Asian Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1994 Beijing 4x100m freestyle relay

Aleksandr Agafonov (Uzbek : Александр Агафонов; born 22 April 1975) is an Uzbek former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. [1] He is a three-time Olympian (1996, 2000, and 2004), a two-time swimmer at the Asian Games (2002 and 2006), and a former Uzbekistani age group record holder in the 100 and 200 m freestyle.

Agafonov made his official debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he competed as a member of the Uzbekistan team in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. Teaming with Vyacheslav Kabanov, Dmitry Pankov, and Oleg Tsvetkovskiy, Agafonov swam the second leg in heat two with a split of 1:56.44, but the Uzbeks settled for fourth place and twelfth overall in a final time of 7:40.60. [2]

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Agafonov competed as an individual swimmer in the 100 m freestyle. Swimming in heat three, he picked up a third seed and fifty-fourth overall by 0.36 of a second behind winner Paul Kutscher of Uruguay in 52.58. [3]

Agafonov swam for his second time in the 100 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He achieved a FINA B-standard of 52.10 from the Russian Championships in Moscow. [4] He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including 28-year-old Željko Panić of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He raced to fourth place by 0.17 of a second behind Panic in 52.92. Agafonov ended his third Olympic stint with a fifty-seventh-place effort in the preliminaries. [5] [6]

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