Serhiy Mykolaiovych Advena (Ukrainian: Сергій Миколайович Адвена; born August 4, 1984) is a Ukrainian former swimmer who specializes in the freestyle and butterfly swimming styles.[1] He is a two-time Olympian (2004 and 2008), and a multiple-time Ukrainian record holder in both 100 and 200 m butterfly. He also helped out the Ukrainian team to upset their American rivals and claim the medley relay title (3:38.49) at the 2005 Summer Universiade in Izmir, Turkey.[2]
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| Full name | Serhiy Mykolaiovych Advena | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 4, 1984 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | ZS Kyiv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Advena made his Olympic debut in Athens 2004, competing in two swimming events. He also teamed up with Maksym Kokosha, Dmytro Vereitinov, and Olympic stalwart Serhiy Fesenko in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. Swimming the anchor leg, Advena recorded a fastest split of 1:50.90, and the Ukrainian team went to finish the preliminary heats in twelfth overall, with a final time of 7:24.13.[3] In the 200 m butterfly, Advena failed to qualify for the final, as he finished twelfth overall in his semifinal run in 1:58.11. His time was just two hundredths of a second (0.02s) ahead of Japan's Takeshi Matsuda, who beat him for the gold medal at the 2003 Summer Universiade in Daegu, South Korea.[4][5][6]
Four years after competing in his first Olympics, Advena qualified for his second Ukrainian team, as a 24-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He finished sixth in the 200 m butterfly from the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands, clearing a FINA A-standard entry time of 1:57.04.[7] On the second day of the Games, Advena challenged seven other swimmers in heat five of the 200 m freestyle, including South Africa's Darian Townsend and Israel's Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or. He cruised to third place by a single tenth margin from Townsend in a Ukrainian record time of 1:48.18, but missed the semifinals by a 0.37-second deficit, as he placed twenty-third overall in the preliminaries.[8] In the 200 m butterfly, Advena posted a time of 1:56.24 to obtain a fourteenth seed on the morning prelims.[9][10] Then, he repeated his feat from Athens with a fifteenth-place time of 1:56.64 in the semifinals.[11]
References edit
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Serhiy Advena". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
- ^ "USA Wins Four Gold Medals on Sixth Day of World University Games". Swimming World Magazine. August 17, 2005. Archived from the original on June 16, 2013. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
- ^ "Men's 4×200m Freestyle Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. August 17, 2004. Retrieved January 31, 2013.
- ^ "Swimming Roundup: Four Universiade Records Bettered as China Pull off Two Golds". Xinhua News Agency. People's Daily. August 25, 2003. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
- ^ Jeffrey, Josh (August 24, 2003). "China Wins Two, Four Games Records Fall on Day One of World University Games". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on December 28, 2013. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
- ^ "Men's 200m Butterfly Semifinal 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. August 19, 2004. Retrieved January 31, 2013.
- ^ "2008 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Eindhoven, Netherlands) – Men's 200m Butterfly Final" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
- ^ "Men's 200m Freestyle Heat 5". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on August 21, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
- ^ Lohn, John (August 11, 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Michael Phelps Paces 200 Fly Prelims With Olympic Record". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on May 16, 2013. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
- ^ "Men's 200m Butterfly Heat 6". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on August 21, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
- ^ "Men's 200m Butterfly Semifinal 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on August 21, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2012.