Sergey Ashikhmin
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| Full name | Sergey Ashihmin | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Sergey Ashikhmin | |||||||||||||||||||
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 Kyrgyzstan Russia
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| Height | 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 87 kg (192 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Volga | |||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Edward Bartkevich | |||||||||||||||||||
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Sergey Ashihmin (Russian: Серге́й Ашихмин; is a Russian-born Kyrgyz former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. He is a two-time Olympian (1996 and 2000), and a former Kyrgyzstan record holder in the 50 and 100 m freestyle. While playing for the Russian senior team, Ashihmin also earned a silver medal, along with Denis Pimankov, Dmitry Chernyshov, and double Olympic champion Alexander Popov, in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 1999 European Aquatics Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.
Ashihmin became one of the first swimmers from Kyrgyzstan to compete at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta since the post-Soviet era. He failed to reach the top 16 final in the 100 m freestyle, finishing in twenty-ninth place with a time of 51.07. He also placed eighteenth as a member of the Kyrgyzstan team in the 4×100 m freestyle relay (3:30.62), seventeenth in the 4×200 m freestyle relay (8:00.00), and twenty-first in the 4×100 m medley relay (3:56.24).
In 1998, Ashihmin shared silver medals with Popov, Pimankov, and Roman Yegorov for Russia in the sprint freestyle relay (3:17.99), when the U.S. hosted again the Goodwill Games in New York City.
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