Sergey Pankov (swimmer)

Sergey Pankov
Personal information
Full nameSergey Pankov
National team Uzbekistan
Born (1988-12-02) 2 December 1988 (age 35)
Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight71 kg (157 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBackstroke, butterfly
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing Uzbekistan
Asian Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Singapore 200 m backstroke

Sergey Pankov (Uzbek: Сергей Панков; born December 2, 1988) is an Uzbek swimmer, who specialized in backstroke and butterfly events.[1] He won a bronze medal in the 200 m backstroke at the 2006 Asian Swimming Championships in Singapore, and had achieved an eighth-place finish in the same discipline at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.

Pankov made his Olympic debut, as a 15-year-old, in Athens 2004, where he competed in the men's 200 m butterfly. Swimming in heat one as a newcomer to the international scene, Pankov posted his own personal best of 2:13.06 to round out the field of 39 swimmers to last place in the prelims.[2][3]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Pankov qualified for his second Uzbek team in the 200 m backstroke. He cleared a FINA B-cut of 2:03.79 (200 m backstroke) from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in Almaty.[4] Pankov rounded out the first heat to last place, almost two seconds behind Oleg Rabota of Kazakhstan and Brett Fraser of the Cayman Islands, recording his lifetime best at 2:03.51. Pankov failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-eighth overall in the prelims.[5]

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sergey Pankov". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  2. ^ "Men's 200m Butterfly Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  3. ^ Thomas, Stephen (16 August 2004). "Men's 200 Butterfly, Prelims Day 3: Michael Phelps and Japan's Yamamoto Tie As Fastest Qualifiers; Tom Malchow will be there too". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 December 2005. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  4. ^ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Backstroke" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 26. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  5. ^ "Men's 200m Backstroke Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2012.