| Andrei Cecan | |
| Fullname: | Andrei Cecan |
| Strokes: | Freestyle |
| Club: | Dinamo Chişinău |
| Birth Date: | 20 June 1976 |
| Birth Place: | Chişinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Height: | 1.850NaN0 |
| Weight: | 780NaN0 |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Andrei Cecan (born June 20, 1976) is a Moldovan former swimmer, who specialized in middle-distance freestyle events.[1] He is a single-time Olympian (2000), a sixth-place finalist at the 1999 Summer Universiade, and a member of Dinamo Chişinău.
Cecan made his major international debut at the 1998 FINA World Championships in Perth, Australia. In the 400 m freestyle, he powered home with a fifteenth-place effort in the B-Final in a time of 3:56.68, trailing Hungary's Béla Szabados by two hundredths of a second (0.02).[2]
Cecan competed in the men's 200 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He posted a FINA B-time of 1:52.12 from the Summer Universiade in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.[3] [4] He challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Ukraine's Rostyslav Svanidze, a top 16 finalist in Atlanta four years earlier. Cecan raced to sixth place by three-tenths of a second (0.30) behind Kyrgyzstan's Dmitri Kuzmin in a time of 1:53.23. Cecan failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-first overall in the prelims.[5]