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Denis Petrashov (born February 1, 2000) is a Kyrgyzstani competitive swimmer. He competed in the Men's 200-meter breaststroke event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and both the Men's 100-meter (swimming a 1:00.23, setting a Kyrgyzstani national record) and 200-meter breaststroke events at the 2021 Summer Olympics. Petrashov won the silver medal in the 100-meter breaststroke at the 2018 Youth Olympics, and gold medals at the 2022 Maccabiah Games in Israel in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events.

Denis Petrashov

Personal information
Native name	Денис Евгеньевич•Петрашов
Full name	Denis Evgenyevich Petrashov
National team	Kyrgyzstan
Born	(2000-02-01) 1 February 2000 (age 22) Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan[1]
Height	192 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
College team	Louisville Cardinals
Medal record Youth Olympics 2018 Buenos Aires 100 m breaststroke Maccabiah Games 2022 Israel 100 m breaststroke 2022 Israel 200 m breaststroke

Biography

Petrashov's hometown is Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.[2] His father is former three-time Olympian and former breaststroke national record holder Yevgeny Petrashov.[3][4]

He competed in the Men's 200-meter breaststroke event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and both the Men's 100-meter (swimming a 1:00.23, setting a Kyrgyzstani national record) and 200-meter breaststroke events at the 2021 Summer Olympics.[5][6]

Petrashov won the gold medal in the 200-meter breaststroke at the 10th Asian Age Group Swimming Championships 2019 in Bangalore, India.[7] He won two silver medals.[7] in men's 50 and 100 meters breaststroke.[7]

He is also a 2-time Asian Games finalist, and a Youth Olympics silver medalist.[8] Petrashov currently holds national record Kyrgyz records (breaststroke long course).

Petrashov won gold medals at the 2022 Maccabiah Games in Israel in the 100 m (in a time of 1:00.46, bettering the record set in the prior Maccabiah Games by American B.J. Johnson) and 200 m breaststroke events.[9][10][11]

Attending the University of Louisville and competing for the Louisville Cardinals, in 2022 Petrashov swam 51.92/1:51.89.[8][12] At the 2022 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Championships, he was runner-up in the 200 breaststroke and seventh in the 100 breaststroke.[2] He did not score at the 2022 NCAAs, after losing a swim-off for 16th in the 100, and not matching his ACC 200 breast time.[12]

Major results

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Kyrgyzstan
2015	World Championships	Kazan, Russia	50th (h)	200 m breaststroke	2:22.84[13]
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	38th (h)	200 m breaststroke	2:16.57
	Asian Championships[14]	Tokyo, Japan	19th (h)	50 m breaststroke	30.08
			17th (h)	100 m breaststroke	1:04.28
			6th	200 m breaststroke	2:17.45
2017	2017 Maccabiah Games[15]	Jerusalem, Israel	5th	100 m breaststroke	1:03.37
			5th	200 m breaststroke	2:18.84
	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	48th (h)	100 m breaststroke	1:03.14
			32nd (h)	200 m breaststroke	2:18.43
2018	Asian Games	Jakarta, Indonesia	16th (h)	50 m breaststroke	28.73
			11th (h)	100 m breaststroke	1:02.12
			5th	200 m breaststroke	2:12.19
	Youth Olympic Games	Buenos Aires, Argentina	7th	50 m breaststroke	28.70
			2nd	100 m breaststroke	1:01.34
			9th (h)	200 m breaststroke	2:16.70
2019	World Championships	Gwangju, South Korea	28th (h)	100 m breaststroke	1:00.94
			24th (h)	200 m breaststroke	2:11.65
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	27th (h)	100 m breaststroke	1:00.23
			28th (h)	200 m breaststroke	2:10.07
2022	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary[16]	20th (h)	50 m breaststroke	27.89[17]
			20th (h)	100 m breaststroke	1:00.86
			12th (sf)	200 m breaststroke	2:11.00

See also

• List of flag bearers for Kyrgyzstan at the Olympics
• List of Kyrgyzstani records in swimming
• "The Top Ranked Swimmers of All-Time from Kyrgyzstan"

References

External links

• Denis Petrashov at FINA
• Denis Petrashov at SwimRankings.net
• Denis Petrashov at Olympics.com
• Denis Petrashov at Olympedia
• Instagram pagea

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