Andrei Radzionau

Andrei Radzionau
Personal information
Nickname(s) Radz[1]
Nationality  Belarus
Born (1985-06-16) 16 June 1985
Minsk, Belarusian SSR
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 3 12 in)
Weight 85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club RTsFVS Minsk (BLR)
College team Louisville Cardinals (USA)
Coach Arthur Albeiro (USA)

Andrei Radzionau (Belarusian: Андрэй Радзіонаў born June 16, 1985 in Minsk) is a Belarusian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[2] Radzionau is also a varsity swimmer for the Louisville Cardinals, and a former geography major at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.

Radzionau qualified for the men's 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by establishing a new Belarusian record and clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 22.72 from the national championships in his hometown Minsk.[1][3][4] He challenged seven other swimmers on the ninth heat, including three-time Olympian Camilo Becerra of Colombia. Radzionau edged out Filipino-American tanker and Florida-based resident Daniel Coakley to take the fifth spot by four hundredths of a second (0.04), posting his personal best of 22.65. Radzionau failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-sixth out of 97 swimmers in the preliminaries.[5]

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