National team Russia Height 1.85 m Sport Swimming Weight 70 kg | Club SDYuShO Krasnoyarsk Coach Irina Rodina Name Alexey Kovrigin | |
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Full name Aleksey Sergeyevich Kovrigin Born 7 July 1981 (age 42) ( 1981-07-07 ) Krasnoyarsk, Russian SFSR,
Soviet Union Strokes Freestyle swimming, Medley swimming | ||
Aleksey Sergeyevich Kovrigin (also Alexey Kovrigin, Russian: Алексей Серге́евич Ковригин; born July 7, 1981) is a Russian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and individual medley events. He is a three-time Russian swimming (2000, 2001, and 2004) in the 400 m individual medley, and a current president of the Krasnoyarsk Swimming Federation. He is also a graduate of physical education at Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University.
Kovrigin made his first Russian team, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, he failed to advance into the final in any of his individual events, finishing seventeenth in the 400 m individual medley (4:22.21), and twenty-second in the 1500 m freestyle (15:30.69).
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Kovrigin shortened his program by qualifying only for the men's 400 m individual medley. He placed second behind his teammate Igor Berezutskiy from the Russian Championships in Moscow, clearing a FINA A-standard entry time of 4:20.07. He challenged seven other swimmers on the final heat of five, including top medal favorite Michael Phelps of the United States. He rounded out the field to last place by 0.57 of a second behind Berezutskiy in 4:23.77. Kovrigin failed to advance into the final, as he placed twenty-fourth overall on the first day of preliminaries.