Nationality Belarus Name Yauhen Tsurkin Role Swimmer | Height 1.82 m Club Team Belarus Weight 72 kg | |
Full name Yauhen Mikalaevich Tsurkin Born 9 December 1990 (age 33) ( 1990-12-09 ) Homel, Belarusian SSR | ||
SWIMMING Men's 50m FREESTYLE Final - 28th Summer Universiade 2015 Gwangju (KOR)
Yauhen Mikalaevich Tsurkin (Belarusian: Яўген Мікалаевіч Цуркін; Łacinka: Jaŭhien Mikałajevič Curkin; born 9 November 1990) is a Belarusian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and butterfly events.
Contents
- SWIMMING Mens 50m FREESTYLE Final 28th Summer Universiade 2015 Gwangju KOR
- Florent Manaudou vs Andriy Govorov 50m liblikat finaal
- Career
- References
Florent Manaudou vs Andriy Govorov 50m liblikat finaal
Career
He won a bronze medal in the 50 m butterfly at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, breaking a new Belarusian record time of 23.37 seconds.
Tsurkin qualified for the men's 100 m freestyle, as a member of the Belarusian swimming team, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by attaining a B-standard entry time of 49.62 seconds from the European Championships. He challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including British-born Paraguayan swimmer Benjamin Hockin. Tsurkin edged out sixth-place finisher Gabriel Melconian Alvez of Uruguay by fifteen hundredths of a second (0.15), outside his qualifying entry time of 50.53 seconds. Tsurkin failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-fourth out of 60 swimmers in the preliminaries.
At the 2012 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Chartres, France, Tsurkin lowered his national record time to 22.73 seconds, but was barely out touched by France's Frédérick Bousquet for the final top seeding in the semifinals of the men's 50 m butterfly.