Birth Date: | 10 February 1958 |
Birth Place: | Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Russia |
Death Date: | 5 April 2006 (aged 48) |
Death Place: | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
Height: | 181 cm |
Weight: | 73 kg |
Sport: | Swimming |
Event: | Butterfly, freestyle |
Pb: | 100 m butterfly – 55.35 (1980) |
Club: | Trud |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Yevgeny Alekseyevich Seredin (ru|Евгений Алексеевич Середин; 10 February 1958 – 5 April 2006) was a Russian swimmer who competed in the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1980, he won a silver medal in the 4×100 m medley relay and placed fifth in the individual 100 m butterfly event. He held eight Soviet titles: in the 100 m butterfly (1976, 1978–79), medley relay (1977–79), and 4×100 m and 4×200 m freestyle relays (1979). After retiring in 1983, Seredin coached swimmers in Saint Petersburg. He died of a heart attack.[1]