Full name Bertrand Bristol Name Bertrand Bristol National team Seychelles Height 1.86 m | Sport Swimming Weight 72 kg Strokes Butterfly | |
Born 5 February 1982 (age 42) ( 1982-02-05 ) | ||
IOIG 2011: Bertrand Bristol Gold Medal 200m Butterfly
Bertrand Bristol (born February 5, 1982) is a Seychellois former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. Bristol qualified for the men's 200 m butterfly at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 2:09.68. He challenged six other swimmers in heat one, including 15-year-old Sergey Pankov of Uzbekistan. He set a Seychellois record of 2:09.07 to edge out Pankov for a sixth spot by nearly four seconds. Bristol failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-eighth overall in the preliminaries.
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