Jean Luc Razakarivony, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jean Luc Razakarivony

retired Malagasy breaststroke swimmer

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1975

Place of Birth: Antananarivo, Madagascar

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Madagascar

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Jean Luc Razakarivony (born September 10, 1975) is a Malagasy former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.
He is a three-time Olympian (1996, 2000, and 2004), a multiple-time Malagasy record holder in the 100 and 200 m breaststroke, and a member of Genève Natation 1885, based in Geneva, Switzerland.Razakarivony made his first Malagasy team, as a 21-year-old, 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-first place with a time of 1:07.34.On his second Olympic appearance in Sydney 2000, Razakarivony edged out Saudi Arabia's Ahmed Al-Kudmani to earn a third spot and fifty-fifth overall in heat one of the 100 m breaststroke by exactly a tenth of a second (0.10), establishing his own lifetime best at 1:05.97.Razakarivony swam for his third time in the 100 m breaststroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
He received a Universality place from FINA in an entry time of 1:07.25.
He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Kyrgyzstan's Yevgeny Petrashov, who also competed with the same number of Games.
He posted a time of 1:07.74 to save a sixth spot over Petrashov by four hundredths of a second (0.04).
Razakarivony ended his third and final Olympic stint with a fifty-fourth place effort on the first day of preliminaries.