Yauhen Tsurkin

Yauhen Tsurkin

Tsurkin at the 2015 European Short Course Championships in Netanya
Personal information
Full name	Yauhen Mikalaevich Tsurkin
Nationality	Belarus
Born	9 December 1990 Homel, Belarusian SSR
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11 ^1⁄2 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, butterfly
Club	Team Belarus[1]
Medal record European Championships 2014 Berlin 50 m butterfly 2012 Debrecen 50 m butterfly European Championships (SC) 2015 Netanya 50 m butterfly 2013 Herning 50 m butterfly 2015 Netanya 4×50 m freestyle 2015 Netanya 4×50 m medley Summer Universiade 2013 Kazan 50 m butterfly 2015 Gwangju 50 m freestyle 2015 Gwangju 50 m butterfly 2015 Gwangju 100 m butterfly

Yauhen Mikalaevich Tsurkin (Belarusian: Яўген Мікалаевіч Цуркін; born 9 November 1990) is a Belarusian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and butterfly events.^[1][2]

Career

He won a bronze medal in the 50 m butterfly at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, breaking a new Belarusian record time of 23.37 seconds.^[3]

Tsurkin qualified for the men's 100 m freestyle, as a member of the Belarusian swimming team, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by attaining a B-standard entry time of 49.62 seconds from the European Championships.^[4][5] He challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including British-born Paraguayan swimmer Benjamin Hockin. Tsurkin edged out sixth-place finisher Gabriel Melconian Alvez of Uruguay by fifteen hundredths of a second (0.15), outside his qualifying entry time of 50.53 seconds. Tsurkin failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-fourth out of 60 swimmers in the preliminaries.^[6]

At the 2012 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Chartres, France, Tsurkin lowered his national record time to 22.73 seconds, but was barely out touched by France's Frédérick Bousquet for the final top seeding in the semifinals of the men's 50 m butterfly.^[7]

References

1. "Yauhen Tsurkin". London 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
2. "Yauhen Tsurkin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
3. "European Long Course Championships: Close Calls, Fast Times On Second Night". Swimming World Magazine. 22 May 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
4. "Qualifying Athletes – Men's 100 m freestyle" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
5. "2012 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Debrecen, Hungary) – Men's 100m Freestyle" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
6. "Men's 100m Freestyle Heat 4". London 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
7. "European Short Course Championships: Hannah Miley, Rikke Møller Pedersen set Euro records on last night of Euro short course champs". Swimming World Magazine. 25 November 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2013.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile