Andrey Kvassov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Olympic swimmer
Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1976
Place of Birth: Almaty, Kazakhstan
Profession: swimmer
Nationality: Kazakhstan
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Andrey Kvassov
- Andrey Kvassov (Kazakh: ?????? ???????; born January 16, 1976) is a Kazakh former swimmer, who specialized in sprint and middle-distance freestyle events.
- He is a two-time Olympian (1996 and 2000), and a top 16 finalist at the 2002 Asian Games. Kvassov made his official debut for Kyrgyzstan at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
- He failed to reach the top 16 final in the 400 m freestyle, finishing twenty-sixth in a time of 4:00.69.
- A member of the Kyrgyzstan team, he also placed eighteenth in the 4×100 m freestyle relay (3:30.62), and seventeenth in the 4×200 m freestyle relay (8:00.00).At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Kvassov competed only in two swimming events.
- He eclipsed a FINA B-cut of 1:53.76 (200 m freestyle) from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in Almaty.
- On the first day of the Games, Kvassov placed twenty-first for the Kazakhstan team in the 4×100 m freestyle relay.
- Teaming with Sergey Borisenko, Pavel Sidorov, and Igor Sitnikov in heat three, Kvassov swam a second leg and recorded a split of 52.25, but the Kazakhs settled only for last place in a final time of 3:28.90.
- The following day, in the 200 m freestyle, Kvassov placed forty-eighth on the morning prelims.
- Swimming in heat two, he touched out Cyprus' Alexandros Aresti for a seventh seed by almost a full body length in 1:55.72.Two years later, at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, Kvassov failed to medal in any of his individual events, finishing sixteenth in the 50 m freestyle (24.13), and tenth in the 100 m freestyle (52.27).
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