Andrei Capitanciuc | |
Fullname: | Andrei Capitanciuc |
Strokes: | Breaststroke |
Birth Date: | 28 May 1985 |
Birth Place: | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia |
Height: | 1.780NaN0 |
Weight: | 620NaN0 |
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Andrei Capitanciuc (born May 28, 1985) is a Moldovan former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] Capitanciuc qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by achieving a FINA B-standard of 1:04.98 from the Russian Open Championships in Moscow.[2] He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including three-time Olympians Jean Luc Razakarivony of Madagascar and Yevgeny Petrashov of Kyrgyzstan. He shared a second seed with Saudi Arabia's Ahmed Al-Kudmani in a time of 1:05.65. Capitanciuc failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-seventh overall out of 60 swimmers on the first day of preliminaries.[3] [4]