Nationality Uzbekistan Name Petr Romashkin Weight 70 kg | Sport Swimming Height 1.85 m Strokes Freestyle swimming | |
Born 5 July 1989 (age 34) ( 1989-07-05 ) | ||
Petr Romashkin (Uzbek: Pyotr Romashkin; born July 5, 1989) is an Uzbekistani swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Romashkin qualified for the men's 100 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 50.92 from the Russian Open Swimming Championships in Saint Petersburg. He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including 16-year-olds Virdhawal Khade of India and Christopher Duenas of Guam. Romashkin raced to sixth place by three hundredths of a second (0.03) behind South Korea's Lim Nam-Gyun in a time of 51.83 seconds. Romashkin failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-fifth out of 64 swimmers in the preliminary heats.
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