Alexei Puninski

Alexei Puninski
Personal information
Full name Alexei Puninski
National team  Croatia
Born (1985-01-11) 11 January 1985
Yekaterinburg, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 84 kg (185 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly
Club HPK Mladost[1]
College team Auburn University (U.S.)[1]
Coach Brett Hawke (U.S.)
Richard Quick (U.S.)[1]

Alexei Puninski (born January 11, 1985) is a Russian-born Croatian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.[2] He represented his nation Croatia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has claimed multiple Croatian championship titles and national records in both the freestyle and butterfly (50 and 100 m). He has also won a career total of three medals (two golds and one bronze) in a major international competition, spanning the European Junior Championships and European Short Course Championships in Helsinki, Finland, with respective times of 24.57 and 23.21.[1][3]

Puninski competed for Croatia in the men's 100 m butterfly at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, he finished with a third-place time in 52.61 to dip beneath the FINA A-standard (52.86) by 0.25 of a second and earn a direct Olympic selection to the Croatian squad at the USA Swimming Grand Prix in Columbus, Ohio.[4][5] Coming from third at the halfway turn on the outside in heat six, Puninski faded down the stretch to hit the wall in dead-last with a 53.65. Puninski failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-seventh overall out of sixty-six swimmers in the prelims.[6]

At the 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Rijeka, Puninski set a Croatian record of 22.63 seconds in the semifinals of the men's 50 m butterfly.[7] He also won a bronze medal as a member of the Croatian team in the men's 4×50 m freestyle relay, with a time of 1:23.68.[8]

Puninski is also an eighteen-time All-American swimmer, a full-fledged member of the Auburn Tigers, and an international business graduate at the Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.[1]

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