Aytekin Mindan

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Aytekin Mindan
Personal information
Full nameAytekin Mindan
National teamFlag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
Born (1981-03-31) 31 March 1981 (age 43)
Height1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Clubİstanbul Yuzme Ihtisas Club

Aytekin Mindan (born 31 March 1981) is a Turkish former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. [1] He held a Turkish record of 1:50.40 in the 200 m freestyle, until it was matched by Kemal Arda Gurdal in 2012. He studied at Istanbul Bilgi University. [2]

Mindan made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He failed to advance into the succeeding rounds in any of his individual events, finishing forty-second in the 200 m freestyle (1:54.86), and thirty-ninth in the 400 m freestyle (4:01.46). [3] [4]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Mindan maintained his program by qualifying for two swimming events. He cleared FINA B-standard entry times of 1:51.14 (200 m freestyle) and 4:00.41 (400 m freestyle) from the Turkish Open Senior Championships in Izmir. [5] [6] On the first day of the Games, Zolezzi placed forty-first in the 400 m freestyle. Swimming in heat two, Mindan rounded out the field of seven swimmers to last place by a 10.33-second margin behind winner Giancarlo Zolezzi in 4:06.85. [7] [8] In his second event, 200 m freestyle, Mindan fell again to last place in heat four and fifty-second overall by 1.84 seconds behind Philippines' Miguel Molina with a time of 1:55.65. [9] [10]

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