Andrei Cecan (born June 20, 1976) is a Moldovan former swimmer, who specialized in middle-distance freestyle events. He is a single-time Olympian (2000), a sixth-place finalist at the

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, and a member of Dinamo Chişinău. Cecan made his major international debut at the 1998 FINA World Championships in

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. In the

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, he powered home with a fifteenth-place effort in the B-Final in a time of 3:56.68, trailing Hungary's Béla Szabados by two hundredths of a second (0.02). Cecan competed in the men's 200 m freestyle at the

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. He posted a

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B-time of 1:52.12 from the

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. He challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Ukraine's Rostyslav Svanidze, a top 16 finalist in Atlanta four years earlier. Cecan raced to sixth place by three-tenths of a second (0.30) behind Kyrgyzstan's

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in a time of 1:53.23. Cecan failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-first overall in the prelims.

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1976 births Living people Moldovan male freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Moldova Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Chișinău {{Moldova-swimming-bio-stub