Iurii Zakharov
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Iurii Zakharov |
| National team |
 Kyrgyzstan |
| Born |
1 December 1985 Bishkek, Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union |
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Backstroke, medley |
Iurii Zakharov (also Yuriy Zaharov, Russian: Юрий Захаров; born December 1, 1985) is a Kyrgyz former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke and individual medley events.[1] He represented his Kyrgyzstan in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008).
Zakharov made his first Kyrgyz team, as a 19-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's 200 m backstroke. Swimming in heat one, he recorded the slowest prelims time of the event in 2:10.45 to close out the field of thirty-six swimmers to last place.[2][3]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Zakharov qualified this time for the men's 200 m individual medley, by clearing a FINA B-cut of 2:05.43 from the Russian Swimming Championships in Moscow.[4] He challenged six other swimmers on the first heat, including fellow two-time Olympians Omar Pinzón of Colombia, Andrejs Dūda of Latvia, and Danil Bugakov of Uzbekistan. Zakharov edged out Bugakov to take a sixth spot by three seconds in 2:07.01. Zakharov failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-fifth overall in the preliminary heats.[5]
References
- ↑ "Iurii Zakharov". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
- ↑ "Men's 200m Backstroke Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ Thomas, Stephen (18 August 2004). "Men's 200 Backstroke Prelims, Day 5: Peirsol Looks Good for a Dorsal Double". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Individual Medley" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 40. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 200m Individual Medley Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 23 November 2012.