Ralph Goveia Explained

Ralph Goveia
Fullname:	Ralph Wesley Goveia
Strokes:	butterfly
Birth Date:	8 March 1996

Ralph Wesley Goveia Assafrao (born March 8, 1996) is a Zambian swimmer. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 metre butterfly event; his time of 54.84 seconds in the heats did not qualify him for the semifinals.^[1] ^[2]

Major Results

Individual

Long course

Representing
2013	World Championships	Barcelona, Spain	58th (h)	50 m butterfly	26.31
2013	World Championships	49th (h)	100 m butterfly	57.66
2014	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow, Great Britain	24th (h)	100 m breaststroke	1:07.54
		18th (h)	50 m butterfly	25.35
		19th (h)	100 m butterfly	56.33
		19th (h)	200 m medley	2:13.90
	Youth Olympic Games	Nanjing, China	22nd (h)	50 m butterfly	25.33
	Youth Olympic Games	18th (h)	100 m butterfly	56.16
2015	World Championships	Kazan, Russia	46th (h)	50 m butterfly	25.16
	World Championships	55th (h)	100 m butterfly	56.34
	African Games	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo	10th (h)	50 m breaststroke	29.92
		9th (h)	100 m breaststroke	1:08.14
		6th	50 m butterfly	25.25
		7th	100 m butterfly	56.38
		-	200 m medley *¹	DNS
2016	Olympic Games	align=left	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	38th (h)	100 m butterfly	54.84
	African Championships^[3]	Bloemfontein, South Africa	8th	50 m freestyle	24.86
		9th (h)	100 m freestyle	54.00
		10th (h)	200 m freestyle	2:02.09
		4th	50 m butterfly	25.17
		4th	100 m butterfly	55.46
2017	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	39th (h)	50 m butterfly	24.56
2017	World Championships	53rd (h)	100 m butterfly	54.86
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	-	50 m breaststroke	DNS
		14th (sf)	50 m butterfly	24.49
		10th (sf)	100 m butterfly	54.10
	African Championships	Algiers, Algeria	10th (h)	50 m freestyle	24.19
		-	50 m breaststroke *²	DNS
		4th	50 m butterfly	24.67
		3rd	100 m butterfly	54.53
2019	World Championships	Gwangju, South Korea	54th (h)	50 m butterfly	25.08
	World Championships	49th (h)	100 m butterfly	55.14
	African Games	Casablanca, Morocco	15th (h)	50 m freestyle	24.17
		10th (h)	50 m breaststroke	29.26
		8th	50 m butterfly	24.90
		8th	100 m butterfly	55.10

Note:

¹ Did not start in the final. (At the heats, he finished 8th place with 2:13.12 new national record.)
² Did not start in the final. (At the heats, he finished 7th place with 29.32 new national record.)

Short course

Representing
2012	World Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	74th (h)	50 m butterfly	26.34
		72nd (h)	100 m butterfly	58.90
		55th (h)	100 m medley	1:02.46
2016	World Championships	Windsor, Canada	63rd (h)	50 m freestyle	23.27
		61st (h)	50 m breaststroke	28.79
		34th (h)	50 m butterfly	24.00
		39th (h)	100 m butterfly	53.63
		46th (h)	100 m medley	57.15
2018	World Championships	Hangzhou, China	45th (h)	50 m butterfly	24.18
2018	World Championships	46th (h)	100 m butterfly	54.42

Relay

Long course

Representing
2014	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow, Great Britain	13th (h)	4 × 100 m freestyle	3:49.62
2014	Commonwealth Games	13th (h)	4 × 100 m medley	4:12.10
2015	World Championships	align=left	Kazan, Russia	20th (h)	4 × 100 m mixed medley	4:14.40
2019	African Games	align=left	Casablanca, Morocco	10th (h)	4 × 100 m mixed medley	4:27.78

Short course

Notes and References

Web site: Ralph Goveia Assafrao . Rio 2016 . September 25, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160825003156/https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/ralph-goveia-assafrao . August 25, 2016 . dead .
Web site: Men's 100m Butterfly - Standings . Rio 2016 . September 25, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160922170948/https://www.rio2016.com/en/swimming-standings-sw-mens-100m-butterfly . September 22, 2016 . dead .
Web site: 12th African Swimming Champs 2016 results. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20180515040017/http://swimsa.org/liveresults/2016/xii-cana-african-swimming-championships-2016. 15 May 2018. 27 July 2019 . swimsa.org.