Alexandru Ivlev

Alexandru Ivlev
Personal information
Full name Alexandru Ivlev
National team  Moldova
Born (1981-02-07) 7 February 1981
Chişinău, Moldavian SSR,
Soviet Union
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke
Club Olimpia Chişinău

Alexandru Ivlev (born February 7, 1981 in Chişinău) is a Moldovan former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.[1] He is a two-time Olympian, and a member of the swimming team for Olimpia Chişinău.

Ivlev's Olympic debut came at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, he established a personal best of 57.91 to top the first heat of the men's 100 m backstroke, but finished only in thirty-eighth place.[2]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Ivlev qualified again for the 100 m backstroke by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 58.39 from the Russian Open Championships in Moscow.[3] Unlike his first Olympics, Ivlev raced to third place on the same heat by 0.21 of a second behind Kazakhstan's Stanislav Osinsky in 1:00.13. Ivlev failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-second overall in the preliminaries.[4][5]

References

  1. "Alexandru Ivlev". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  2. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 100m Backstroke Heat 1" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 274. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  3. "Swimming – Men's 100m Backstroke Startlist (Heat 1)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  4. "Men's 100m Backstroke Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. Thomas, Stephen (15 August 2004). "Men’s 100 Backstroke Prelims: Japan’s Morita Surprises with Fastest Time; Americans Cruise Through". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
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