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Full name | Yahor Aliaksandravich Salabutau |
National team | ![]() |
Born | Minsk, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union | 24 January 1984
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Yahor Aliaksandravich Salabutau ( Belarusian: Ягор Аляксандравіч Салабутаў, Russian: Егор Александрович Салобутов; born January 24, 1984) is a Belarusian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. [1] Salabutau qualified for the men's 200 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:51.23 from the Belarus Open Championships in Minsk. [2] He challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including two-time Olympians Joshua Ilika Brenner of Mexico and Giancarlo Zolezzi of Chile. He raced to sixth place by three hundredths of a second (0.03) behind Algeria's Mahrez Mebarek in 1:53.03. Salabutau failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-seventh overall in the preliminaries. [3] [4]
Personal information | |
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Full name | Yahor Aliaksandravich Salabutau |
National team | ![]() |
Born | Minsk, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union | 24 January 1984
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Yahor Aliaksandravich Salabutau ( Belarusian: Ягор Аляксандравіч Салабутаў, Russian: Егор Александрович Салобутов; born January 24, 1984) is a Belarusian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. [1] Salabutau qualified for the men's 200 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:51.23 from the Belarus Open Championships in Minsk. [2] He challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including two-time Olympians Joshua Ilika Brenner of Mexico and Giancarlo Zolezzi of Chile. He raced to sixth place by three hundredths of a second (0.03) behind Algeria's Mahrez Mebarek in 1:53.03. Salabutau failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-seventh overall in the preliminaries. [3] [4]