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Native name | Денис Евгеньевич Петрашов | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Denis Evgenyevich Petrashov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan [1] | 1 February 2000|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 192 cm (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Louisville Cardinals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Denis Petrashov (born February 1, 2000) is a Kyrgyz competitive swimmer who swam for the University of Louisville and was a three-time Olympic participant. He competed in the Men's 200-meter breaststroke event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and both the Men's 100-meter (swimming a 1:00.23, setting a Kyrgyz national record) and 200-meter breaststroke events at the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He made the semifinals at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the 200-meter breaststroke, finishing seventh. Petrashov won the silver medal in the 100-meter breaststroke at the 2018 Youth Olympics, and gold medals at the 2022 Maccabiah Games in Israel in both the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events.
Petrashov's hometown is Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. [2] His father is former three-time Olympian and former breaststroke national record holder Yevgeny Petrashov. [3] [4]
Representing Kyrgystan, he competed in the Men's 200-meter breaststroke event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio where he finished 38th with a time of 2:16.57.
At the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he competed in both the Men's 100-meter breaststroke, where he swam a 1:00.23, finishing 27th overall, and setting a Kyrgyzstani national record, and in the 200-meter breaststroke where he finished 18th overall with a time of 2:10.07. As noted previously, his 200-meter time was a Kyrgyzstani national swimming record, which broke his previous record of 1:00.94 which he set at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships. [5] [6] [7]
Petrashov also made the 2024 Olympic team for Kyrgyzstan where he finished seventh in the 200-Meter breaststroke in his semifinal heat, recording a time of 2:10.19. [8] [9]
Petrashov won the gold medal in the 200-meter breaststroke at the 10th Asian Age Group Swimming Championships 2019 in Bangalore, India. [10] He won two silver medals. [10] in men's 50 and 100 meters breaststroke. [10]
Petrashov was a 2-time Asian Games finalist, and a Youth Olympics silver medalist. [11]
Petrashov won gold medals at the 2022 Maccabiah Games in Israel in the 100 m (in a time of 1:00.46, bettering the record set in the prior Maccabiah Games by American B.J. Johnson) and 200 m breaststroke events. [12] [13]
Petrashov attended the University of Louisville and competed for the Louisville Cardinals from around 2020-2024 under Head Coach Arthur Albiero. While swimming for Louisville in his first year of competition, Petrashov recorded times of 51.92 and 1:51.89 in the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke events. [11] [14] At the 2022 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Championships, he was runner-up in the 200 breaststroke and seventh in the 100 breaststroke. [2] He did not score at the 2022 NCAAs, after losing a swim-off for 16th in the 100 breaststroke, and not matching his ACC 200 breast time. [14] In the 2022-23 season for Louisville, at the NCAA Championships, he placed third in the 100 breast, earning All-American honors with a time of 50.78 to set a new school record. [2]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2015 | World Championships | ![]() | 50th (h) | 200 m breaststroke | 2:22.84 [15] |
2016 | Olympic Games | ![]() | 38th (h) | 200 m breaststroke | 2:16.57 |
Asian Championships [16] | ![]() | 19th (h) | 50 m breaststroke | 30.08 | |
17th (h) | 100 m breaststroke | 1:04.28 | |||
6th | 200 m breaststroke | 2:17.45 | |||
2017 | 2017 Maccabiah Games [17] | ![]() | 5th | 100 m breaststroke | 1:03.37 |
5th | 200 m breaststroke | 2:18.84 | |||
World Championships | ![]() | 48th (h) | 100 m breaststroke | 1:03.14 | |
32nd (h) | 200 m breaststroke | 2:18.43 | |||
2018 | Asian Games | ![]() | 16th (h) | 50 m breaststroke | 28.73 |
11th (h) | 100 m breaststroke | 1:02.12 | |||
5th | 200 m breaststroke | 2:12.19 | |||
Youth Olympic Games | ![]() | 7th | 50 m breaststroke | 28.70 | |
2nd | 100 m breaststroke | 1:01.34 | |||
9th (h) | 200 m breaststroke | 2:16.70 | |||
2019 | World Championships | ![]() | 28th (h) | 100 m breaststroke | 1:00.94 |
24th (h) | 200 m breaststroke | 2:11.65 | |||
2021 | Olympic Games | ![]() | 27th (h) | 100 m breaststroke | 1:00.23 |
28th (h) | 200 m breaststroke | 2:10.07 | |||
2022 | World Championships | ![]() | 20th (h) | 50 m breaststroke | 27.89 [19] |
20th (h) | 100 m breaststroke | 1:00.86 | |||
12th (sf) | 200 m breaststroke | 2:11.00 |