Oleg Rabota
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Full name | Oleg Rabota | ||||||||||||
National team | Kazakhstan | ||||||||||||
Born | Almaty, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
12 June 1990 ||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle, backstroke | ||||||||||||
College team | Southern Illinois University (U.S.) | ||||||||||||
Coach | Rick Walker (U.S.) | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Oleg Rabota (Kazakh: Олег Работа; born June 12, 1990) is a Kazakh swimmer, who specialized in middle-distance freestyle and backstroke events.[1] He represented his nation Kazakhstan at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a silver medal in the 200 m freestyle at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games in Macau, China. Rabota also served as a member of the Southern Illinois Salukis swimming and diving team under head coach Rick Walker, while pursuing his sports management studies at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.[2]
Rabota competed for the Kazakh squad in two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He posted a time of 2:03.75 to set himself up as the fourth seed headed into the 200 m backstroke final of the Olympic test event in Beijing, and then snatched the 400 m freestyle title with a 3:56.98 at the Kazakhstan Open Championships three months later in Almaty; both of these marks dipped beneath the FINA B-cut.[3][4] In the 400 m freestyle, Rabota fought off with Argentina's Juan Martín Pereyra for the fourth spot throughout the race, but relegated to fifth and thirty-sixth overall to round out the opening heat in 4:02.16.[5] Four days later, in the 200 m backstroke, Rabota raced to second on the same heat by 0.78 of a second behind leader Brett Fraser of the Cayman Islands in 2:01.95, but his thirty-third place time in the prelims would not be enough to put him through to the semifinals.[6]
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External links
- Profile – Kazakhstan Swimming Federation
- Player Bio – Southern Illinois Salukis
- NBC Olympics Profile
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