Serhiy Advena
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| Full name | Serhiy Mykolaiovych Advena | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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4 August 1984 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | ZS Kiev | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Serhiy Mykolaiovych Advena (Ukrainian: Сергій Миколайович Адвена; born August 4, 1984) is a Ukrainian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.[1] He is a two-time Olympian (2004 and 2008), and a multiple-time Ukrainian record holder in both 100 and 200 m butterfly. He also helped out the Ukrainian team to upset their American rivals and claim the medley relay title (3:38.49) at the 2005 Summer Universiade in Izmir, Turkey.[2]
Advena made his Olympic debut in Athens 2004, competing in two swimming events. He also teamed up with Maksym Kokosha, Dmytro Vereitinov, and Olympic stalwart Serhiy Fesenko in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. Swimming the anchor leg, Advena recorded a fastest split of 1:50.90, and the Ukrainian team went to finish the preliminary heats in twelfth overall, with a final time of 7:24.13.[3] In the 200 m butterfly, Advena failed to qualify for the final, as he finished twelfth overall in his semifinal run in 1:58.11. His time was just two hundredths of a second (0.02s) ahead of Japan's Takeshi Matsuda, who beat him for the gold medal at the 2003 Summer Universiade in Daegu, South Korea.[4][5][6]
Four years after competing in his first Olympics, Advena qualified for his second Ukrainian team, as a 24-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He finished sixth in the 200 m butterfly from the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands, clearing a FINA A-standard entry time of 1:57.04.[7] On the second day of the Games, Advena challenged seven other swimmers in heat five of the 200 m freestyle, including South Africa's Darian Townsend and Israel's Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or. He cruised to third place by a single tenth margin from Townsend in a Ukrainian record time of 1:48.18, but missed the semifinals by a 0.37-second deficit, as he placed twenty-third overall in the preliminaries.[8] In the 200 m butterfly, Advena posted a time of 1:56.24 to obtain a fourteenth seed on the morning prelims.[9][10] Then, he repeated his feat from Athens with a fifteenth-place time of 1:56.64 in the semifinals.[11]
References
- ↑ "Serhiy Advena". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
- ↑ "USA Wins Four Gold Medals on Sixth Day of World University Games". Swimming World Magazine. 17 August 2005. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 4×200m Freestyle Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ "Swimming Roundup: Four Universiade Records Bettered as China Pull off Two Golds". Xinhua News Agency. People's Daily. 25 August 2003. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
- ↑ Jeffrey, Josh (24 August 2003). "China Wins Two, Four Games Records Fall on Day One of World University Games". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 200m Butterfly Semifinal 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 19 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ "2008 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Eindhoven, Netherlands) – Men's 200m Butterfly Final" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 200m Freestyle Heat 5". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
- ↑ Lohn, John (11 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Michael Phelps Paces 200 Fly Prelims With Olympic Record". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 200m Butterfly Heat 6". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
- ↑ "Men's 200m Butterfly Semifinal 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 5 December 2012.