Oleg Nikolayevich Tsvetkovskiy (Uzbek: Олег Николаевич Цветковский; born May 27, 1970) is an Uzbek former swimmer, who specialized in sprint and middle-distance freestyle events.[1] He represented Uzbekistan in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2000), since the nation's breakup from the Soviet Union.
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Full name | Oleg Tsvetkovskiy |
National team | ![]() |
Born | (1970-05-27) 27 May 1970 (age 52) Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union |
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Tsvetkovskiy made his official debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He failed to reach the top 16 final in the 100 m freestyle, finishing forty-eighth in a time of 52.39.[2] A member of the Uzbek team, he also placed seventeenth in the 4×100 m freestyle relay (3:28.33), and twelfth in the 4×200 m freestyle relay (7:40.60).[3][4]
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Tsvetkovskiy competed only in two swimming events. He eclipsed a FINA B-cut of 1:55.29 (200 m freestyle) from the Asian Championships in Busan, South Korea.[5] On the first day of the Games, he teamed up with Ravil Nachaev, Petr Vasiliev, and Oleg Pukhnatiy in the 4×100 m freestyle relay. Although he swam the second leg in heat one, his team had been disqualified due to an early relay takeoff by Pukhnatiy.[6][7] The following day, in the 200 m freestyle, Tsvetkovskiy placed forty-fourth on the morning prelims. He edged out Egypt's Mahmoud El-Wany to lead the first heat by 0.26 of a second in a lifetime best of 1:54.93.[8][9]