Yevgeny Petrashov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yevgeny Petrashov

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1974

Place of Birth: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Kyrgyzstan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Yevgeny Petrashov (born September 4, 1974) is a Kyrgyz former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.
He is a three-time Olympian (1996, 2000, and 2004), and a former Kyrgyzstan record holder in both 100 and 200 m breaststroke. Petrashov made his first Kyrgyz team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
There, he failed to reach the top 16 final in the men's 100 m breaststroke, finishing in forty-second place with a time of 1:07.44.
He also placed twenty-first, as a member of the Kyrgyzstan team, in the 4×100 m medley relay (3:56.24).On his second Olympic appearance in Sydney 2000, Petrashov fell to last place and fifty-ninth overall in heat four of the 100 m breaststroke by a 3.30-second margin behind joint winners Arsenio López of Puerto Rico and Valerijs Kalmikovs of Latvia, finishing the race at 1:07.32.Petrashov swam for his third time in the 100 m breaststroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
He achieved a FINA B-standard of 1:04.82 from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in Almaty.
He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Madagascar's Jean Luc Razakarivony, who also competed in the same number of Games.
He earned a seventh spot by four hundredths of a second (0.04) behind Razakarivony in 1:07.78.
Petrashov ended his third and final Olympic stint with a fifty-fifth place effort on the first day of preliminaries.Petrashov currently serves as the head coach of Kyrgyzstan's swimming squad.