Andrei Mihailov

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Andrei Mihailov
Personal information
Full nameAndrei Mihailov
National teamFlag of Moldova.svg  Moldova
Born (1980-10-31) 31 October 1980 (age 43)
Tiraspol, Moldavian SSR,
Soviet Union
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke
ClubMoldova Swimming Team

Andrei Mihailov (born October 31, 1980) is a Moldovan former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. [1] He is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a member of the Moldova Swimming Team.

Mihailov's Olympic debut came at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Swimming in heat one of the men's 200 m backstroke, he edged out Bulgaria's Ivan Angelov to take a second spot and thirty-eighth overall by 0.63 of a second in 2:06.67. [2]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Mihailov qualified again for the 200 m backstroke. He cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:06.12 from the Russian Open Championships in Moscow. [3] Swimming in the same heat as Sydney, he raced again to second place by 0.68 of a second behind Finland's Matti Mäki in 2:06.97. Mihailov failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-fourth overall in the preliminaries. [4] [5]

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References

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