Aleksandr Sklyar (also Alexandr Sklyar, Kazakh: Александр Скляр; born May 18, 1988) is a Kazakh swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] He represented his nation Kazakhstan at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has claimed a career total of six medals (two in each color) in a major international competition, spanning two editions of the Asian Indoor Games (2007 and 2009). Sklyar also won a silver medal, as a member of the Kazakhstan swimming team, in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 2008 Good Luck Beijing China Open.[2]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Alexandr Sklyar |
| National team |  Kazakhstan |
| Born | 18 May 1988 Pavlodar, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
Medal record | |
Sklyar competed for the Kazakh swimming in the men's 100 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, he rocked a lifetime best of 50.89 to slip past the FINA B-cut (50.95) by six hundredths of a second (0.06) in the final at the Russian Open Swimming Championships in Saint Petersburg.[3] Rallying from fifth at the halfway turn in heat three, Sklyar put up a late resistant surge to quickly pass Uzbekistan's Petr Romashkin by almost half the body length for the fourth spot in 51.24. Sklyar failed to advance to the semifinals, as he placed fifty-second overall out of sixty-four swimmers in the prelims.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Aleksandr Sklyar". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ^ "Good Luck Beijing China Open: Day Six Finals". Swimming World Magazine. 4 February 2008. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ^ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 100m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 11. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
- ^ "Men's 100m Freestyle Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ^ "ПЕКИН-2008: Есть первые награды!" [Beijing 2008: First ever winner!] (in Russian). Ak Zhaik. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
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