Petr Vasiliev

Petr Vasiliev (also Pyotr Vasiliev, Uzbek: Пётр Васильев; born April 21, 1981) is an Uzbek former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.^[1] He is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004), and a top 16 finalist in the 200 m freestyle at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea.^[2]

Petr Vasiliev

Personal information
Full name	Petr Vasiliev
National team	Uzbekistan
Born	(1981-04-21) 21 April 1981 (age 43)
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle

Vasiliev made his first Uzbek squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he competed only in the 4×100 m freestyle relay, along with Ravil Nachaev, Oleg Tsvetkovskiy, and Oleg Pukhnatiy. Vasiliev supposedly swam a third leg in the first heat, but his team was disqualified due to an early relay takeoff by Pukhnatiy.^[3][4]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Vasiliev qualified as an individual swimmer for the men's 200 m freestyle. He cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:54.94 from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.^[5][6] He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including dual citizen Mihail Alexandrov of Bulgaria. He rounded out the field to last place by less than 0.18 of a second behind Kazakhstan's Vitaliy Khan, outside his entry time of 1:56.93. Vasiliev failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-seventh overall in the preliminaries.^[7][8]

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Petr Vasilev". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
2. "China Sweeps All Five Events on Day Two of Asian Games". Swimming World Magazine. 1 October 2002. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
3. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 4×100m Freestyle Relay Heat 1" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 334. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
4. Newberry, Paul (16 September 2000). "Thompson anchors U.S. relay win; Thorpe wins 400 free". Canoe.ca. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
5. "Swimming – Men's 200m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
6. "2003 FINA World Championships (Barcelona, Spain) – Men's 200m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
7. "Men's 200m Freestyle Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
8. Thomas, Stephen (15 August 2004). "Men's 200 Freestyle Prelims: Thorpe Fastest in 1:47.22; Hoogie, Keller, Phelps and Hackett All in the Mix". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 27 March 2013.