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Nationality
  
Barbados

Name
  
Andrei Cross

Sport
  
Swimming

Height
  
1.86 m


Event(s)
  
Breaststroke

Weight
  
86 kg

Coached by
  
Mark Skimming

Club
  
TeamBath

Born
  
2 June 1984 (age 39) (
1984-06-02
)

Andrei Cross (born June 2, 1984) is a Barbadian former swimmer, who specialized in the breaststroke events. Cross represented his nation Barbados at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and in two editions of the Commonwealth Games (2002 and 2006), establishing a national record of 29.24 in the 50 m breaststroke. During his swimming career, Cross was affiliated with TeamBath, the sports organization of England's University of Bath, under the tutelage of head coach Mark Skimming.

Cross competed in the men's 100 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, he cleared the FINA-B entry standard time in 1:03.64 to assure his selection to the Olympic team at the 2007 Maribor Open in Slovenia. Swimming in heat three of the evening prelims, Cross held off his fast pace over Uzbekistan's Ivan Demyanenko to save the penultimate spot from the eight-swimmer field by 0.17 seconds. Cross' time of 1:04.57 was not good enough to put him through to the semifinals, finishing only in fifty-fifth place overall.

References

Andrei Cross Wikipedia


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